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Business world still not wholly favorable to women, study finds KArLEE JOHNSON
Men’s salaries increased an average 21 percent in 2008, while 2 percent of women earned the same.
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omen in the business world may still be facing gender inequality thought to be long since eradicated, a 2010 study found. The survey found that women received an average of $4,600 less initially than their male colleagues. Women were also given fewer opportunities for promotion, and their salaries increased an average of 2 percent compared with men’s 21 percent in 2008. Catalyst, a nonprofit aimed at increasing opportunities for women in business, conducted a survey of 4,000 MBAs who graduated between 1996 and 2007 from business schools in the U.S., Asia, Canada and Europe. “From the first job on, men received higher compensation, were more highly placed in the organization and received more promotions of greater monetary value over time,” the study revealed. CSUN alumna Rosa Davies, who earned her degree in management in Spring 2011, said she was not surprised by the salary gap. “People pay on experience and create sala-
ries based on potential,” said Davies, who now works as a medical insurance agent. “There is a perception that men can handle stress better. When a woman tries to be seen on the same level, (management) tend to notice her and not what she is doing.” Others suggest that perhaps the gender divide in business salaries can be looked at differently. “Economists have found that if you compare people with the same educational background, there isn’t much gender-based discrimination,” said Dr. Shirley Svorny, economics professor. “When you see differences in wages, it’s because (researchers) have not compared apples to apples. If you compare women and men who have the same education and who have been working for the same amount of time, it is hard to find differences in salaries.” The Catalyst study results also showed that the presence of a mentor in a recent graduate’s career helped significantly, finding that, “men who had a mentor received $9,260 more in their first post-MBA job than women with a mentor.” Mentors, as defined by the study, were individuals whom students relied on for career advice and networking prior to their first post-
Businesswomen start out earning about $4,600 less than their male colleagues.
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CSuN alumnus Drazen Malinis (left) talks to Mike Dade about a trumpet case filled with the entire Miles Davis discography before the Miles Davis Experience show featuring the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet at the VPAC Sunday, Oct. 23.
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VOLUME 53 ISSUE 34 • A FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
NEWS Deaf community told of suspected gunman later than others p. 3
isitors were able to tour a post-war Los Angeles through an African-American perspective during a celebration of jazz and the opening reception of a photography
OPINION Child porn and animation are not the same p. 6
exhibit Sunday in the VPAC. The Miles Davis Experience featured a jazz production by the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet. The performance chronicled not only the work of Davis, but the historical context that surrounded the jazz music scene during that decade. From the poem “Trumpet
Player” by Langston Hughes, “The Negro, With the trumpet at his lips, Has dark moons of weariness Beneath his eyes, where the smoldering memory of slave ships Blazed to the crack of whips about thighs,” narrated Donald E. Lacy, Jr. as an image
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SPORTS Women’s soccer is embarrassed at home against UC Irvine p. 8
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