The New York Times: One of America’s First Women’s Colleges Is Accused of Paying Men More

September 18. 2023

ERA Policy Director & Deputy Legal Director Jessica Ramey Stender was interviewed by The New York Times about a lawsuit ERA filed against Vassar College over pay discrimination against its women professors.

Jessica Stender, the deputy legal director at Equal Rights Advocates and a lawyer for the Vassar plaintiffs, said she was surprised the college had not done more to address the pay gap given its status as a standard-bearer of women’s education and one of the Seven Sisters consortium of historically women’s colleges.

That such problems could exist at Vassar, she said, “is really indicative of how deep and how pervasive pay discrimination problems are in our society.”

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