The study reported in this article reassessed gender-related inequities in the salaries of faculty members of graduate schools of social work in light of methodological questions about earlier research on this issue. A secondary analysis did not support the findings that important inequities exist or that those inequities are smaller in New England or in schools with female deans. It appears that salary is the wrong dependent variable for research on sex bias in graduate schools of social work.
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