Women administrators in undergraduate social work education are
making gains in representation and salary equity that are atypical of
much of academia. In this article, which reports on a 1988 reassessment of academic administrators, reversals in the gaps in salaries are
identified for female and male assistant and associate professors. Women in this study continued to be poorly represented at the rank
of full professor. Although two points in time are not sufficient to
predict trends in equity, particularly when gender and salary are
affected by social and economic factors, the study found that rank,
tenure, and institutional size are important factors in gender-related
disparities.
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