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comparable worth
noun
- the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
Example Sentences
We recognize that there are significant costs to reach comparable worth for the human services sector.
âAnd then later on,â Schlafly continued, âafter the feminists moved on to another goal, after we beat them on E.R.A., they took up the goal of comparable worthâ â a reference to a largely unsuccessful movement in the 1980s to require equal pay for men and women, which Schlafly called âan effort to give us wage and price control.â
For example, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees endorsed comparable worth, the theory that employers should root out pay discrimination by resetting wages based on work value rather than prevailing market rates.
Instead of âequal pay for equal work,â supporters of pay equity call for âequal pay for work of equal value,â or âcomparable worth.â
Chamber of Commerce, where she rankled womenâs rights groups by opposing legislation on maternity leave and comparable worth.
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