Rethinking Comparable Worth: Do All Roads Lead to Equity?.

Tobias, Sheila; Megdal, Sharon Bernstein

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Publication Date: 1985

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Rethinking Comparable Worth: Do All Roads Lead to Equity?

Tobias, Sheila; Megdal, Sharon Bernstein

Educational Record, v66 n4 p27-31 Fall 1985

Rigidity is setting in that obscures reasonable discussion of the imperfections of a free market where women's wages are concerned, and increases the likelihood that comparable worth, if implemented, might substitute one set of arbitrary job evaluations for another. (MLW)

Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Higher Education, Labor Market, Salaries, Salary Wage Differentials, Sex Discrimination, Wages

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Equal Pay Act 1963

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