The Equal Pay Act was the first law to suggest that the pay of women should be equal to men when their positions are equal. The purpose of the Equal Pay Act was to secure equal pay for women when they have jobs similar to men and to seek to eliminate discrimination and the depressing effects on living standards caused by reduced wages for female workers (Twomey, 1994)...
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While sources indicate that women's pay is still approximately 25 percent less than men's pay, the Equal Pay Act is still considered one of the best attempts to help close the gap ("Equal Pay," 1988; VerMeulen, 1995; Hamilton, 1994). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a broader piece of legislation in that it was passed to eliminate job discrimination in areas such as hiring, job assignments, and promotions...
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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