King's 'Meet the Professors' frieze. Roar News / Johnny Tam
KING’S paid male academics £10,000 more than women on average last year, with new figures revealing the College has the second widest university gender pay-gap in the country.
Average full-time pay was stuck at £46k for women academics while males earnt £56k – almost double the national gap of £5.7k.
Female academics were left seriously shortchanged earning 18% less than their male counterparts, according to a Times Higher Education survey.
The gap has barely narrowed from the year before when female academics were also paid roughly £10k less than male staff.
This year, female professors at King’s were still worse off, but the gap was less: they earned £78k – around £4k less than male professors who average £82k.
A College spokesperson said King’s was “working hard to understand the reasons for our gender pay gapâ€.
“We know that women are less likely to be mobile, less likely to apply for promotion and less likely to take on senior administrative roles,†the spokesperson added.
The statistics come just a few months after King’s launched their ‘Meet the professors’ frieze, pictured above, to promote female professors.
The national academic pay gap has been narrowing for some years, falling from a 15.6% difference in 2000.
University and College Union chief Michael MacNeil said that progress to close the pay gap was still too slow: “We need mandatory equal pay audits, an honest appraisal about the scale of the problem and then a concerted effort by all employers to implement remedial action to close the pay gap.â€
Female academics were paid more than their male counterparts at 14 institutions.
