| Abstract
| - The belief prevails, based on previous studies, that discrepancies in the salaries off male and female social workers reflect widespread sexist administrative practices in the profession. This study shows, however, that when critical extraneous variables that were not adequately controlled in prior studies are sufficiently partitioned, the relationship between sex and salary among social work educators remains statistically significant but is of a trivial magnitude. These results illustrate the hazards off interpreting available data solely on the basis of statistical significance.
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