Critical evaluation of the ways in which the Equal Pay Act 1970 seeks to achieve equal pay between men and women

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Table of Contents Critical evaluation of the ways in which the Equal Pay Act 1970 seeks to achieve equal pay between men and women Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Equal Pay Act of 1970
    1. The main element of the Equal Pay Act 1970
    2. The Equal Pay Act 1970 in brief
  3. Implication of Equal Pay Act : An example
    1. Corning glass works vs Brennan 417 US 188 (1974)
  4. Evaluation of the Equal Pay Act 1970
  5. Conclusion
  6. Appendix
  7. Sources

Abstract

Because of the large number of women taking jobs in the war industries during World War II, the governments urged employers in 1942 to voluntarily make "adjustments which equalize wage or salary rates paid to females with the rates paid to males for comparable quality and quantity of work on the same or similar operations." Not only did employers fail to listen to this "voluntary" request, but also, at the end of the war, most women lost their new jobs to make room for returning veterans. Until the early 1960s, newspapers published separate job listings for men and women. Jobs were categorized according to sex, with the higher level jobs listed almost exclusively under "Help Wanted-Male." In some cases the ads ran identical jobs under male and female listings-but with separate pay scales. Separate, of course, meant unequal: between 1950 and 1960, women with full-time jobs earned on average between 59-64 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earned in the same job.

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Critical evaluation of the ways in which the Equal Pay Act 1970 seeks to achieve equal pay between men and women

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