The shopfloor workers say they are doing jobs of equal value, but are paid less because their work was historically perceived as "women's work" and therefore thought to be worth less than men's work.
The evidence – including the government's own – is that even before the two- or three-year public sector pay freeze, salaries for senior roles in the civil service lagged substantially behind jobs of equal weight elsewhere in the economy.
Both were given different jobs of equal responsibility in areas not involved with training or recruitment, Sanders said.
A couple I've known since I was born said that when they were my age, they thought everything needed to be symmetrical in their marriage to be equal -- jobs of equal prestige, equal contributions of time at home.
But jobs have still been lost, and there is, pace laissez-faire economic theory, no guarantee that the workers who formerly held them will find new jobs of equal or greater value.
And if you ask why America is more class-bound in practice than the rest of the Western world, a large part of the reason is that our government falls down on the job of creating equal opportunity.
"The tribunal has yet to consider whether the jobs are of equal value in terms of their demands and, if some jobs are, only then will the tribunal move on to consider the reasons for the differentials, including the existence of different market rates in different industry sectors," it said.
Following [9], we considered only jobs of duration equal to one cycle.
The job of senior adviser — equal parts counselor, confidant, strategist and truth-teller — is not new to the Obama White House, yet it is a relatively modern invention.
