Traditionally, women have worked in different occupations than men; these occupations tend to be substantially different, pay less and confer less authority. (Ferber 1999). Equity means fairness and justice. Pay equity programs throughout the world attempt to legislate and regulate the elimination of systemic gender-based wage discrimination and to ensure ongoing systems that will maintain equitable wage relationships over time...
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Pay equity (also referred to as "comparable worth") programs require a gender-neutral analysis of comparative work. A variety of very different jobs are compared based on a composite of the skill, effort and responsibility of a job and the conditions under which the job is generally done. The comparison determines the relative worth of those jobs to the achievement of a firm's objectives, under the proposition that equal contribution merits equal compensation...
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Equal Rights Amendment. However, the Equal Rights Amendment never made it to the floor of the Senate or of the House to be voted on. It just stayed in committee. Many opposers of the Equal Rights Amendment claimed that women should never be forced to compete with men in the workplace, and that they needed some help from the government...	2 / 513
Equal Pay Act To take it a bit further, employers cannot pay men and women differently if job is basically the same skill, repsonsibility, and effort. Skill is defined by what skills it takes to perform the particular job...	3 / 839
Gender Discrimination When filing a complaint under federal law for gender discrimination an individual must first go to the Equal Employment Opportunity commission (EEOC). One can use other local agencies when filing under state law (www...	2 / 399
Equal Pay Pay equity (also referred to as "comparable worth") programs require a gender-neutral analysis of comparative work. A variety of very different jobs are compared based on a composite of the skill, effort and responsibility of a job and the conditions under which the job is generally done...	4 / 1039