Comparable Worth in the Public Sector. in Public Sector Payrolls.
The big new wrinkle in comparable worth was to claim that many traditional women's jobs, e.g., librarian, involved just as much skill and training and responsibility as men's jobs that paid more, e.g., electrician, and it wasn't fair.
In the United States the concept of comparable worth was introduced in the 1970s by reformers seeking to correct inequities in pay for occupations traditionally held by men and women.
Hence some feminists have organized in campaigns for "comparable worth" to raise women's wages to the same as men's wages involving comparable skills (Brenner 2000; cf. also articles in Hansen and Philipson eds. 1990).
(Congress, in a dispute about comparable worth, left open the interpretive question of whether this statute requires the same pay for the same work or equal pay for substantially equivalent jobs, a comparable worth standard).
Her books include Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left, Free Spaces: Sources of Democratic Change in America (with Harry Boyte), Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America, Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Change (with Barbara J. Nelson), and Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End.
Also quite enthusiastic were management consultants like Hay Group, who saw a potential bonanza in job evaluation contracts if comparable worth got going.
The IRS dished out $58 billion worth of EITC checks in 2015, making the policy comparable in size to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is the second-biggest federal safety net measure after Medicaid.
It had what's known as "comparable worth," a prohibition against discrimination in pay between jobs that are comparable in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions, whether or not the job titles are the same (think shipping foreman and clerical supervisor).
Her article, "Wage Discrimination and the Double-Helix of Comparable Worth and Unionism," appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of the New York State bar's L&E Newsletter.
There are discrepancies in pay that have nothing to do with education". City Manager Donald McIntyre and Personnel Director Kermit Francis said changes in pay schedules normally are worked out through employee union negotiations and the issue of comparable worth has been raised in the past two years.
