“We have both the power and capability to reverse this problem to eliminate gender from the equation of fair compensation within our field. We can create adjustments, and even do so within an existing budget pool for salary increases, to appropriately allocate and equalize salaries across teams based on performance, education, years of experience, and any other criteria that an organization uses to
calculate salaries. It won’t happen overnight, but it can shift over time.” |
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Recently, The eLearning Guild published the 2010 e-Learning Salary and Compensation report. Among other findings, one topic that generated much discussion in social networks online is the 14.5% gap in gender pay in e-Learning. Janet Clarey started a blog carnival with Cammy Bean, Julie Dirksen, and Kelly Garber to explore the subject. |
| The emotions expressed in the social learning discussions seem to range from confusion to anger as to why in today’s world we are still facing this issue. In response to that interest, and out of my own curiosity to find the data source of the difference, I drilled down further into the data to see if I could find a key conclusion or answer to the questions being asked in our e-Learning community. Sadly, after much analysis and exploration of the data, I could not identify one obvious potential root cause to isolate or explain the difference in data. The discrepancy in gender pay is pervasive across almost all job roles, states, degrees, and levels of experience. |
As discussed in the report, the initial summary findings were that while e-Learning pay for women is 37% better than the national average as reported by The National Organization for Women for full-time regular employees, as a field across part-time vs. full-time status and employee vs. contractor designation categories, men on average earn
14.5% more than women. |
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Read more at www.learningsolutionsmag.com |
 EXCLUSIVE: 8 March 2010: The NSW government in Australia has issued what is believed to be the world’s first ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate, writes Katrina Fox.
Norrie, a member of Sex and Gender Education (SAGE), a lobby group campaigning for the rights of all sex and gender diverse people has been issued with what is understood to be the world’s first ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate.
This means that Norrie (also known as norrie mAy-Welby) – a resident of Sydney, NSW – is legally recognised as neither male nor female according to the Australian government.
Originally Norrie, 48, was born in Scotland and registered as male at birth. At age 23 Norrie commenced sex and gender conversion to female through hormone and construction of a vagina and was then issued with a gender recognition certificate as female in Australia.
But this did not work out for Norrie as zie (gender-neutral pronoun) did not feel comfortable living solely as a female so zie ceased lifelong hormone treatment and took up a neuter identity which is neither male nor female, resisting any further female or male normalisation.
In January 2010 doctors declared that they were unable to determine Norrie as either male or female as zie has no gonads, the hormonal system was atypically male or female, and Norrie’s psychological identity was neuter.
NSW Births Deaths and Marriages then issued the ‘Sex Not Specified’ Details Recognition Certificate in accordance with recommendations made by the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2009 report on the legal rights of sex and gender diverse people proposing a greater scope of legal recognition be used beyond male and female for certain individuals.
“This decision now has fundamental ramifications for neuter and intersex identified individuals in that they no longer have to be forced to live as male or female,” said Tracie O’Keefe, spokesperson for SAGE.
“Furthermore it is an enormous legal breakthrough for the rights of intersex children whose doctors and parents are confused about their sex at births and that they could be registered as ‘Sex Not Specified’ until they decide what sex would be right for them,” O’Keefe continued.
“Many intersex children have been forced into male and female identities, when not medically necessary, which they later felt were incorrect, including unnecessary brutal surgery to give them stereotypical looking genitalia, often leaving them without sensation or function.”
Also read “My journey to getting a ’sex not specified’ legal document”
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There are few spaces on campus more welcoming than a Triskelion meeting. Nestled at the end of a hall on the third floor of the Shapiro Campus Center, members gather every Thursday evening at 8 p.m. to discuss sexual identity, discrimination and challenges that the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning community continues to face. A few members sit on couches, others take up residence next to the bookshelves and someone is always engaged in conversation. It is a support group, an intellectual coffee discussion and a sociology class.
Students and faculty have also expressed interest with introducing more classes that focus on sexuality and gender studies to address topics that are still sensitive or shrouded with confusion. "Slurs are still thrown around a lot," says Luo. Transgender, polyamory, sadomasochism and asexuality are topics that still need to be introduced into the dialogue.
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July 22nd, 2010 | 
