Princeton University has entered an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to pay $925,000 in back pay and at least $250,000 in future salary adjustments to female professors who earned less money than their male peers.
The agreement follows a review by OFCCP that found between 2012 and 2014, 106 female professors at Princeton received less pay than male professors.
Princeton University spokesman Ben Chang said in a statement last week that the school contested the allegations because they were based on a “flawed statistical model that grouped all full professors together regardless of department” and it did not reflect how the university hires and compensates its staff.
