UM’s own report showed that its music department’s female lecturers on average brought home salaries equal to 70 percent of their male peers’ pay.

The University of Miami has opted against going to trial in a court battle with harpist Laura Sherman, settling a civil case in which she claimed the school denied her fair pay as part of a pattern of blatantly shortchanging female employees on their salaries.

Sherman, who has played the harp in Broadway shows and toured the world with Barbra Streisand, voluntarily dismissed the case against the University of Miami in December after the parties reached a confidential settlement.