Legal issues and statistical approaches to reverse pay discrimination in higher education

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 957-984

  Eckes, Suzanne E ^a   Toutkoushian, Robert K ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender equity; Reverse discrimination; Salary adjustments

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749671707     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-006-9022-7     Document Type: Article

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