Women, Work, and Wages Equal Pay for Jobs of Equal Value (1981) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 107-114
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The formal charge was to "study the principles and procedures used in determining compensation for work in the United States" Path a special eye on discriminator>' practices, based on sex, race, or national ongin. What the committee found was a vast variety of systems, with a craz>' quilt of criteria, whose ultimate outcome-for the society as a whole show ed ~ omen earning substantially less than men although the attributes required to do their work were, on the average, comparable.
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~ did not urge these strategies on the committee because they involve political, legislative, and union actions that are, by their nature, controversial and beyond the scope of the committee's defined jurisdiction. Nevertheless, at a time when wome~and others are seeking greater wage and salary equity, ~ believe it is a valuable public service to offer the following commentary as a contribution to a fruitful public dialogue.
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If this explanation of wage differentials for four major groups in society white men, white women, black men, and black wome~is Brazil, then the basic cause for the rising and falling gaps is not some malfunctioning job evaluation system in a plant but the maldistubution of these populations in the American economy. Theoretically, this maldistabution should be self correcting once there
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An equal percentage of women and men would now be consigned to the under-tier of our economy, to what in another essay ~ called "the other economy." Changing the sex, race, or national origin of the denizens of darkness does not bring light to those imprisoned in the smelly underbelly of our economy. As the years go by, we may expect that the gap between those In the top tier and those in the lower tier of the economy (heawly female and minority)
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To regulate imports requires tariffs, quotas, and revision of the tax law to remove inducements for Amencan manufacturers to produce overseas. It is particularly important to repeal Item 807 of the Tariff Code that actively encourages Amencan companies to contract out much of their work to other countnes.
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In the past, such factories have generally run away from higher-wage to lower-wage areas within the United States. While such removals have caused considerable instability in employment and wage standards, the movements have been confined within the Amencan ambience of minimum wages, child labor laws, occupational safety guidelines, equal employment opportunities' etc.
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This social wage has, in our lifetime, made a profound difference In the lives of the poor in Amenca. According to a Congressional Budget Office study of January 1977 (Poverty Status of Families Under Alternanve Definitions of Incomes, if income were based solely on straight earnings more than one-quarter of the nation's families would be living In poverty as officially defined.
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Percentage guidelines advantage the already advantaged; fixed quantitative guidelines help narrow the gap between top and bottom. Still another strategy might consider subsidies to businesses (usually small)
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