Organizations and Inequality: Sources of Earnings Differences Between Male and Female Faculty

This paper examines the relationship between organizational characteristics and earnings differences between male and female faculty from two theoretical perspectives. Two general sets of organization variables are considered: (1) characteristics that index an organization's power and autonomy in environmental relations, and (2) demographic characteristics. Results show that these characteristics define important aspects of the organizational context in which earnings differences between males and females are most likely to occur and to be maintained. The implications of this research for further research on organizational sources of earnings differences are discussed.