The University of California's female employees are paid substantially less than male university employees for work of equal value, according to a study released last month by a law school student there.
The academic study, published in the California Law Review, finds that this pay inequity constitutes evidence of illegal sex-based wage discrimination.
In a letter to university President David Saxch, the law student. Barbara Norris, said the university may be in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the anti-discrimination provisions of California state law.
Officials, however, dismissed Norris's conclusions as based on old and inaccurate data. The Daily Californian
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