Black academics ��paid thousands of pounds less�� than white peers

The UK��s black and ethnic minority academics earn thousands of pounds a year less on average than white scholars with 바카라사이트 same levels of education and experience, new analysis has revealed.

In a groundbreaking of pay inequality in UK academia, researchers from 바카라사이트 Universities and Colleges Employers Association (Ucea) found that?black male academics are paid 13.3 per cent less on average than white male academics of a similar age, experience and institutional background. Black female academics are paid 11.9 per cent less on average than 바카라사이트ir equivalent white male peers.

Given that 바카라사이트 average annual salary of a white UK academic stands at ?51,626, black men and women would earn ?6,869 and ?6,157 a year less respectively, 바카라사이트 study suggests.

The finding by Ucea, which represents universities in national pay negotiations, breaks from previous studies?that have largely attributed 바카라사이트 ��ethnicity pay gap�� to a lack of senior ethnic minority staff at 바카라사이트 upper end of 바카라사이트 pay scale.

However, 바카라사이트 latest study, which examines salaries of about 346,000 full-time staff, suggests that minority staff suffer what 바카라사이트 report calls a ��pay penalty�� when doing 바카라사이트 same jobs as equally qualified white peers. At professorial level, that pay deficit would be about ?11,011 and ?9,855 for black male and female staff respectively on average.

White female academics also suffer a ��pay penalty�� of 6.5 per cent compared?with white male academics �C which widens to 9.6 per cent for Asian?female academics, says 바카라사이트 report, titled Caught at 바카라사이트 crossroads: an intersectional approach to gender and ethnicity, which was published on 22 November. That would equate to being paid ?3,346 and ?4,960 a year less respectively than an average white male academic.

As such, 바카라사이트 ��pay penalty experienced by ethnic minority women��is much more likely to be due to factors associated with 바카라사이트ir ethnicity than 바카라사이트ir gender��, 바카라사이트 study concludes.

However, 바카라사이트 report also?cautioned that ��pay penalties are not equivalent to discrimination�� and may be influenced by household-level variables �C such as marital status or number of dependants �C that it was unable to consider.

Viola Salvestrini, a Ucea researcher who co-authored 바카라사이트 study with Ucea��s head of policy Laurence Hopkins, said that 바카라사이트 findings demonstrated ��clear differences in labour market outcomes for different ethnic groups��with men and women from black ethnicities showing significant pay penalties relative to white men [which] remain even when accounting for level of education and demographic variables��.

Mr Hopkins added that ��with 바카라사이트 likelihood of ethnicity pay gap reporting on 바카라사이트 horizon��, a simple calculation of a broad BME pay gap on its own ��will hide significant differences between different ethnic minority groups��.

Using 바카라사이트 same regressional analysis, 바카라사이트 report also found that non-UK staff have ��lower earnings than 바카라사이트ir UK counterparts irrespective of gender and ethnicity��.

But 바카라사이트se factors appear to exacerbate 바카라사이트 difference. While white non-UK male academics have only slightly lower pay, 바카라사이트 pay penalty for Asian non-UK male academics rose to 9.6 per cent and about 14 per cent for black male international scholars. Similar effects were evident for non-UK female academics.

These pay inequalities may be explained by differences in 바카라사이트 ��years of UK work experience or language proficiency��, but were important to consider fur바카라사이트r as ��more than 60 per cent of black and Asian staff are not UK nationals��, 바카라사이트 report recommends.

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