Insinuating that the gender of the employees in these three positions is relevant to this discussion, and thereby insinuating potential gender-based discrimination is disingenuous at best, since the differences in banding could be explained by looking at the respective job descriptions, work responsibilities, and number of people being managed.

Here’s an example from LIS – When Barbara Doyle-Wilch first became Dean of LIS, one of her points of pride was appointing non-Librarian (i.e., folks who do not have Master’s degrees in Library Science or the equivalent) staff members to managerial positions on the “Library side” of LIS.

Four such persons were appointed; three were men. This, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of “Library side” staff were and are women.

Now, post-ERP/VSP (and with a different Dean), there are three non-MLS managers; two are men, one is a woman. Of these, the men’s jobs are in either the Specialist or the Management bands; the woman’s is slotted in Operations 4.

Hmmm. Interesting.