Princeton agrees to backpay nearly $1M to female professors after gender discrimination allegations As part of the agreement, the university admits no wrongdoing.
Princeton University has agreed to pay $925,000 in back pay and at least $250,000 in future salary adjustments to resolve allegations of pay disparities based on gender brought about by the U.S. Department of Labor.
As part of the agreement, the Ivy League college admits no wrongdoing or liability in the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs investigation.
The OFCCP said that according to the preliminary findings of the investigation, pay disparities existed at the university for 106 female professors between 2012 and 2014.
"In other words, a professor of English cannot perform the duties of a professor in the Physics department, and vice versa," he noted.
Still, Chang said the university entered the agreement with the OFCCP to "resolve their long-running dispute and end the compliance review.".
He added that Princeton "continues to assert that it complied with both the letter and the spirit of the law" and a university analysis found "no meaningful pay disparities based on gender.". »
