The Affirmative Action subcommittee had their first meeting on the “gender resolutions”. The two resolutions asked them to research and report (by Feb 2008) on recommendations to improve gender (and race and disability) balance in top management positions and on city committees, commissions and boards.
Preliminary information presented is as follows:
As I reported earlier, for top management positions, the salaries as of 5/17/07 are as follows:
- Average: $86,561.46
- Average for Women: $84,544.83
- Average for Men: 87,266.05
- Average for Racial/Ethnic Minorities: $95,314.70
It’s slightly better for women and worse for racial/ethnic minorities than it was on 12/31/06
- Average: $86,086.16
- Average for Women: $83,191.67
- Average for Men: 87,086.72
- Average for Racial/Ethnic Minorities: $91,596.44
The DWD “job families” have 18 categories for all city employees.
- Women are under represented in 10 of the categories.
- Racial/Ethnic minorities are under represented in 7 of the categories.
When it comes to cities, commissions and boards, I can tell you this preliminary information, which is pretty close to what I originally figured when it comes to gender.
- Women are the most under represented, they are only 40.2% of the appointments, while being 50.9% of the population.
- Asians are 5.8% of the population, but 1.7% of the appointments.
- People with disabilities are 10% of the population, but 6.8% of the appointments.
- Hispanics or Latinos are 4.1% of the population but only 2.5% of the appointments.
The staff did a wonderfully thorough and efficient job of presenting the information needed for the committee and the committee already decided that for the study they would define “top management” as Comp Groups 18 (Supervisors), 21 (Department heads with 5 year contracts), 44 (top people at Madison Metro), the city attorneys and top fire, police and engineers.
All that, in less than an hour. Next meeting: August 14th before the Affirmative Action Committee meeting.
