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Findings, Recommendations, and a Plan of Action

In a series of meetings beginning in June, 2000, the Task Force reviewed the reports of the various work groups and, during November, 2000, adopted the findings and recommendations. The many findings of the Task Force are enumerated in the Introduction of this report. The most important of these findings are:

1. Gender has a significant and negative effect on initial salary and this effect carries through to current salary.
   
   
2. Women may be less likely to attain the rank of Associate Professor, even when accounting for pre-tenure productivity.
   
   
3. Women are significantly less likely to receive administrative appointments, particularly to department Chair. Even when women hold administrative appointments, they do not receive compensation comparable to men.
   
   
4. There is a lack of written, transparent, and standardized policies and procedures pertaining to: recruitment, mentoring, salary, annual reviews, promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor, and promotion from Associate to Full Professor.
   
   
5. There is a lack of understanding of gender equity in general and specifically of gender equity as it is rooted in the Jesuit tradition.
   
   
6. There is a lack of uniform procedures for evaluating Chairs and Deans with faculty input.
   
   
7. Faculty report significant levels of gender-based treatment sometimes amounting to harassment.
   
   
8. There is a lack of a centralized office for reporting gender equity grievances.

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