How to Negotiate and Be Paid What You Are Worth: A Workshop for Drexel University Faculty
May 13, 2011
University City Campus
This workshop provided Drexel faculty members with the opporunity to learn about the Gender Wage Gap and to receive practical tips for successful compensation negotiations from Dr. Evelyn Murphy.
Evelyn Murphy is a Ph.D. economist, Founder and President of The WAGE Project, Inc., and a Resident Scholar (on leave 2010-11) in the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, where she researched and authored a book with E.J. Graff on the gender wage gap entitled Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It. The WAGE Project, Inc is a nationwide, grassroots activist organization dedicated to eliminating the gender wage gap. WAGE conducts salary negotiation workshops for women about to graduate from college, working women, women who are returning to work after extended leaves of absence, and tradeswomen.
Dr. Murphy has conducted Work$mart salary negotiation workshops for women faculty in colleges and universities, lawyers, surgeons, certified public accountants, scientists, and librarians, In addition, she has facilitated a substantial number of the more than 150 $tart$mart workshops WAGE has offered on campuses in 35 states during the last three years.
Earlier in her career, Evelyn Murphy served as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs and then Secretary of Economic Affairs, In 1986, she was elected Lt. Governor of Massachusetts and became the first woman in the state's history to hold constitutional office. Prior to her election, no woman had ever served as Governor, Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor or United States Senator.
Faculty members wishing to learn more about such issues are invited to further explore the FDE website, contact our office via e-mail (fde@drexel.edu), or give us a call at 215-895-2141.
