Comparable worth and gender discrimination : an international perspective

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Comparable worth and gender discrimination : an international perspective

Morley Gunderson

International Labour Office, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references

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内容説明

This valuable guide for policy-makers, an output of the ILO Interdepartmental Project on Equality for Women in Employment, highlights the advantages and importance of comparable worth for evaluating jobs and setting fair pay differentials. It also indicates the need for equal opportunity policies, and legislation against discrimination in recruitment and promotion, in order to reduce the gender pay gap.

目次

  • Introduction - some terminology, international perspective, format of volume
  • possible sources of inequality in pay - theoretically expected determinants, methodologies for measuring male-female pay differences, evidence on determinants of inequality in pay
  • scope and actual impact of different policy initiatives - policy initiatives and potential scope to reduce pay inequality, actual impact of different policy initiatives, implications for scope of initiatives and for sources of pay gap
  • concept of comparable worth - aspects of the definition of comparable worth, comparable worth concept of value, proactive or complaints based, proactive application
  • steps involved in applying comparable worth - identifying male- and female-dominated jobs, determining the value of the jobs via job evaluation, establishing relationship between pay and points, appropriate wage adjustment, concluding observations in implementation steps
  • additional design and implementation issues - allowable exceptions, no male comparator groups and all-female establishments, definition of establishment and the employer, compliance and enforcement mechanisms, phasing and retroactivity, maximums and time-limits, observations on design features
  • applications in different countries - ILO conventions and recommendations, Canada, United States, Australia, concluding observations
  • theoretically expected impact of comparable worth
  • evidence from North American cases
  • evidence of impact on wage gap, employment and other aspects
  • application to the private sector
  • comparable worth in different economic systems and development stages
  • summary and concluding observations. (Part contents)

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