Gender Equity Initiative (GEI)
The Gender Equity Initiative was commissioned in April
2008 by Chancellor Michael F. Collins and Dean Terry Flotte after former Lt.
Governor Evelyn Murphy, during a presentation on campus, challenged employers to
eliminate potential gender wage discrimination. Mr. John O’Brien, President and
CEO, UMass Memorial Health Care and Dr. Walter Ettinger, President, UMass
Memorial Medical Center, Associate Vice Provost for Clinical and Population
Health Research and Professor of Medicine, UMMS asked to include the clinical system
physicians in the analysis of faculty compensation equity. The purpose of the study was to determine if compensation
inequities were present for faculty with respect to GENDER and/or RACE.
The extensive analyses revealed no evidence
of systemic or system-wide salary inequities based on either gender or race.
Download a summary: Gender Equity Initiative (pdf)