Female Vassar professors sue college for gender pay gap

Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York is being sued by a group of female professors for what they say is gender-based salary discrimination. Five former or currently tenured Vassar professors filed the suit, which says female faculty members receive lower average salaries than men performing the same work. And Vassar isn’t alone. The American Association of University Professors recently found that across academia, women professors make 82 cents for every dollar their male counterparts make.

Jacques Abou-Rizk is the editor-in-chief of the Vassar student newspaper, The Miscellany News. He spoke with WNYC's Sean Carlson about the case.