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Peer reviewedFerraro, Geraldine A. – American Psychologist, 1984
Discusses the growing gap between the wages of women and men and reviews arguments opposing pay equity. Cites occupational segregation and sex-based wage discrimination as causes for the wage gap, and considers some remedies that have proven to be effective: negotiation, collective bargaining, litigation, and job evaluation studies. (KH)
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Equal Protection, Females
Peer reviewedMajor, Brenda – Journal of Social Issues, 1989
Addresses the role of comparison processes in the persistence of the gender wage gap, its toleration by those disadvantaged by it, and resistance to comparable worth as a corrective strategy. Argues that gender segregation and undercompensation for women's jobs leads women to use different comparison standards when evaluating what they deserve.…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Cultural Influences, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Download full textZahn, Ingrid – 1995
Young women perceive themselves today as equally entitled, active citizens of society. Women's interest in helping to shape politics and society has grown. The German Women's Council, an umbrella organization of about 100 German women's associations, commemorates this year the 100th anniversary of the death of Louise Otto-Peters, the founder of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Peer reviewedJackson, Linda A. – Journal of Social Issues, 1989
Discusses how gender differences in the value of pay, based on relative deprivation theory, explain women's paradoxical contentment with lower wages. Presents a model of pay satisfaction to integrate value-based and comparative-referent explanations of the relationship between gender and pay satisfaction. Discusses economic approaches to the…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Cultural Influences, Economic Factors, Employed Women
Peer reviewedHegtvedt, Karen A. – Journal of Social Issues, 1989
Examines wage-setting policies as different conceptualizations of fairness. Focuses on comparable worth as an alternative to existing wage-setting policies. Analyzes the contributions of social psychology research on distributive justice and procedural justice to understanding the determination of job worth and the dynamics of implementing…
Descriptors: Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1990
The earnings gap is the difference between the percentage ratio of women's earnings to those of men and 100 percent. In 1988, the earnings gap for hourly earnings was 26 percent; for weekly earnings, 30 percent; and for annual earnings, 34 percent. Although the direction over the past decade is toward greater equality, the pace is extremely slow.…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Choice, Career Education, Comparable Worth
