Reviews some of the continuing challenges for the higher education community in achieving salary equity between men and women by examining recent legal cases. Suggests issues that faculty members and administrators might consider when undertaking salary-equity studies. (EV)

A case study tracing failed efforts by Georgetown University (District of Columbia) administrators to require tenured professors at the medical center to fund most of their own salaries notes that despite faculty support by two grievance committees, faculty were forced to sue. Ultimately, an out-of-court settlement was reached. (DB)

Recent federal court rulings concerning the burden-of-proof standards for complex employment discrimination cases involving the use of statistics have brightened the prospects for faculty plaintiffs in sex discrimination cases. The cases deal with salary differentials and race, promotions, and seniority. (MSE)