"A leading university has introduced a pay scale for professors in a bid to banish gender inequality after a landmark employment tribunal which could set a precedent for equal pay across the country.Royal Holloway, University of London, agreed a settlement with Liz Schafer, a drama and theatre studies professor who took legal action over its “scandalous” professorial pay gaps.
The case is expected to have legal ramifications for scores of higher education establishments which do not have equal pay structures in place.
Prof Schafer, 51, from Virginia Water, Surrey, told the Daily Telegraph: “As a result of this case all universities which don’t have a system need to get a system very quickly or there will be a whole queue of female professors waiting to take them to a tribunal.”
Prof Schafer launched legal proceedings after discovering that regardless of her eminence within her field of work and her publication record, she had been consistently under rewarded in comparison to her male peers.
She was represented by the University and College Union which said Royal Holloway’s pay gap between male and female professors was amongst the highest in the country."
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