This is absolutely a problem, but not the full picture, or at least not in the world of academia. My last semester of grad school I worked on a project for my university analyzing faculty salaries. What I found was that at first glance, there does appear to be a large difference in salary only comparing men and women, but if you account for other factors that can and should influence salary(highest degree, tenure status, field of study, etc.) gender is no longer a significant factor in determining salary. These results are pretty standard across institutions. I recommend looking at the UVA or UBC studies if you’re interested. So it’s not that there’s systematic sexism in salary assignment, at least not in the case of a public university. This discrepancy exists because women are more likely to work in lower paying fields than their male counterparts. Case and point: the highest paid department at my university was in the school of engineering and completely staffed by men, while the lowest paid department was in the humanities and mostly staffed by women. The challenge is getting women into these higher paying fields, specifically STEM, which often are sexist environments. Look at some of the things Tim Hunt said about female scientists last year. It’s even more difficult for women of color.
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