Educational Institutions and Comparable Worth: A Doctrine in Search of Application.

Weeks, Kent M.; Organ, Jerome M.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Educational Institutions and Comparable Worth: A Doctrine in Search of Application.

Weeks, Kent M.; Organ, Jerome M.

Journal of Law and Education, v15 n2 p207-28 Spr 1986

Discusses legal and practical problems which prevent the full implementation of the concept of equal pay for jobs of comparable worth. Reviews legislative history of Title VII, the case of "County of Washington vs. Gunther," and other recent litigation, focusing on the impact of comparable worth on educational institutions. (IW)

Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Comparable Worth, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Level, Legal Responsibility, Postsecondary Education, Salary Wage Differentials, School Law, Sex Discrimination

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials

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Audience: Policymakers; Practitioners

Language: English

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Civil Rights Act 1964; Civil Rights Act 1964 Title VII; Equal Pay Act 1963

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