Should Pension Benefits Depend Upon the Sex of the Recipient

Editorial note: The author is a member of the Association Subcommittee on Fringe Benefits. The opinions expressed in this article are the authors own; however, he was encouraged to undertake this work by the Subcommittee. An early Subcommittee position was articulated in a Report in the Summer, 1973, Bulletin on pp. 264-65. An opposite position was taken by the Sixtieth Annual Meeting, in support of "the principle of equal monthly retirement benefits for women and men faculty:9 (See Summer, 1974, Bulletin, p. 142.) This position was endorsed by the Council at its fall, 1974, meeting. (See Spring, 1975, Bulletin, p. 21.) It is further pressed in correspondence from President William Van Alstyne to Secretary of Labor John Dunlop and to TIAA-CREF President William Greenough which was published in the Winter, 1975, Bulletin, pp. 316-21.