It looks like there is some truth to the existence of a discriminatory “pay gap.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required) reports:

A judge has decided that 40 white male professors who brought a discrimination suit against Northern Arizona University 11 years ago are entitled to $1.4-million in back pay and raises. The professors alleged that the university had discriminated against them in a pay-equity plan by giving raises of up to $3,000 each to certain minority and female professors, but giving no raises to them. …Edward Hood, one of the 40 professors, said he feels vindicated by the decision. “I believe in equity; they don’t,” he said, referring to university administrators.

It would be interesting to know if Mr. Hood and any of his colleagues support affirmative action and reparations for slavery, as is fashionable in academia.