Book Reviews: Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy. Edited by Rita Mae Kelly and Jane Bayes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988, 280 pp., $49.95 cloth

Affilia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-93
Author(s):  
Esther Atcherson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparable Worth ◽  
Pay Equity

Comparable Worth, Pay Equity, and Public Policy.

ILR Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Alice H. Cook ◽  
Rita Mae Kelly ◽  
Jane Bayes
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparable Worth ◽  
Pay Equity

Book Reviews

2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-753 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Consumer Good ◽  
Campus Culture ◽  
American Economic Association ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Economic Association ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Duke University

John J. Siegfried of University of Adelaide and American Economic Association reviews “Big-Time Sports in American Universities” by Charles T. Clotfelter. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the phenomenon of prominent, commercialized university-sponsored athletic enterprises and considers the consequences for the universities that operate them. Discusses strange bedfellows; priorities; the bigness of “big time;” consumer good, mass obsession; commercial enterprise; an institution builder; a beacon for campus culture; ends and means; and prospects for reform. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economic and Law at Duke University. Index.”

Comparable Worth: The Problematic Politicization of a Public Personnel Issue

1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent S. Steel ◽  
Nicholas P. Lovrich
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Comparable Worth ◽  
Employee Behavior ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Equity Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Federal Workforce ◽  
Made In

The issue of comparable worth arose as a result of the discovery of serious gender inequities in the operation of the compensation system of Washington State government. Subsequent developments elsewhere have further added to the salience of the pay equity issue. In the context of this highly charged political context, what attitudes toward pay and compensation do women in the public service tend to hold? On the basis of employee surveys conducted in both the State of Washington and among the U.S. federal workforce, findings are reported that suggest that women are less likely to be dissatisfied with their pay than men. The implications of these findings are discussed, both with respect to the future politicization of the comparable worth issue and the proper assumptions to be made in conceptualizing the motivational basis of public employee behavior.

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