The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity: Is Comparable Worth the Next Step?

[摘要] This report examines the trend in the male-female wage gap and the explanations offered for its existence. Remedies proposed for the gender wage gap's amelioration are addressed, with an in-depth focus on the comparable worth approach to achieving "pay equity" or "fair pay" between women and men.

[发布日期] 2004-12-20 [发布机构] Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

[关键词] Labor;Women's employment;Pay equity;Women