Edwina Barvosa, a longtime faculty member in feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, alleges a male colleague — who joined the university eight years after her — has been paid nearly $3 million more than her over the past two decades, despite their similar academic backgrounds and work responsibilities.
According to former members of the women's equestrian team at the University of California, Davis, female student-athletes across the university were shorted some 1.4 million in financial aid during the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 academic years.
The University of Arizona has settled a lawsuit that alleges women working in enrollment services at the University of Arizona Global Campus were paid $14,425 less, on average, than male employees performing the same work.
In 2023, a group of five current and former women professors filed a class action lawsuit alleging Vassar College was aware of long-standing gender pay discrimination among full professors but failed to adequately address the issue. Now the liberal arts college has settled the suit, agreeing to pay $5 million to compensate 84 professors.
For the past 60 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has required private sector employers with at least 100 employees and certain federal contractors to annually repot on the gender and race of their employers. Now the commission has voted 2-1 to rescind this requirement.
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton implemented new restrictions regarding how faculty can discuss race, gender, and sexual orientation in the classroom. Now regional and national faculty organizations are suing Creighton for racial discrimination and for violating professors' free speech.
In 2022, former women student-athletes sued San Diego State University over claims that they were not provided equal scholarship money compared to male athletes. Now, the university has settled and agreed to pay $300,000 in damages split among nearly 800 women.
A group of women faculty at the University of Colorado Denver have filed a lawsuit against their institution, claiming the university has violated Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. Less than two years ago, the University of Colorado Boulder was hit with a similar suit, which resulted in a $4.5 million settlement.
Known as the “Godmother of Title IX,” Dr. Sanders played a key role in the 1972 passage of the federal statute prohibiting sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.
One of the country's oldest women's colleges, Smith College, has been hit with a federal civil rights complaint alleging its acceptance of transgender women undergraduate students is in violation of Title IX and limits opportunities for "biological women."
In a survey of nearly 1,000 women working hybrid jobs, about 31 percent experienced discrimination while physically at work, compared to 17 percent who experienced discrimination while working remotely.
Led by Amy Diehl of Wilson College in Pennsylvania, Leanne Dzubinski of Westmont College in California,, and Amber Stephenson of Clarkson University in New York, a new study has identified 30 distinct forms of discrimination encountered by women leaders in four women-dominated industries where men represent the majority of leadership roles.
