1st Edition

Comparable Worth Social Institutions and Social Change

By Paula England Copyright 1992
358 Pages
by Routledge

358 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages
by Routledge

This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.

1: Segregation and the Pay Gap; 2: Theories of Labor Markets; 3: Pay in Female and Male Occupations: Findings from National Data; 4: Job Evaluation; 5: Pay Equity and the Federal Courts; 6: Feminism and Other Philosophical Positions; 7: Policy Debates

Biography

Paula England