Getting a Handle on Pay Equity

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-202
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Flannery ◽  
Thomas D. McMullen
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Equal Work

Pay equity is one of the most increasingly complex, sensitive and visible people issues facing organizations today. Understanding how to diagnose, quantify and address pay gaps, as defined by equal pay for equal work, has never been more important or more challenging. Today’s business, regulatory, political, and social climates are combining to place unprecedented levels of scrutiny on what organizations are doing—or not doing—to ensure they are fostering an inclusive environment in which all employees have equal opportunity to thrive and develop.

Equal Opportunity and Gender Disadvantage

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley A. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Equality Of Opportunity ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Employment Equity ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Ideal

Recently, in Canada both the Federal Government and various provincial governments have introduced a series of measures intended to address gender inequalities in the workplace. These measures are of two basic types. Employment equity policies involve the implementation of affirmative action programmes designed to encourage the hiring and promotion of more women in, for example, the civil service. Pay equity policies have sought to institutionalize the principle of equal pay for work of equal value or, to use the American terminology, comparable worth. The aim of this paper is to resurrect the presently out of fashion view that the principles of affirmative action and comparative worth that underlie employment equity and pay equity can be defended on the grounds that they contribute to the realization of an ideal of equality of opportunity between men and women in Canadian society. This view, although once prevalent among those concerned with gender issues, has been pushed aside, largely because of doubts about the visionary depth of the ideal of equality of opportunity. It has been replaced instead by an ideal of equality of results which emphasizes the goal of reducing the gender wage gap. It is my intention here to formulate a principle of equality of opportunity that can incorporate recent feminist legal and political philosophy in a way that offers a promising way to analyze issues posed by gender inequalities in the workplace and, as a result, provide a clear rationale for the recent employment equity and pay equity initiatives in Canada.

A Materialist Theory of Women's Status

1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Flax
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Women's Status ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Women’S Status ◽  
Inferior Status ◽  
Equal Work

Women's position in society is determined by three interrelated factors: production, reproduction, and psychodynamics. A change in one area without changes in the others will not necessarily benefit women. It is important to develop a theory of how women's inferior status is maintained, so that the desired result can be obtained from a program or action. This paper is a contribution to such a theory. It offers a materialist explanation of women's status and explores the principles that should inform feminist theory and practice in relation to the restructuring of work. Due to the interrelated sources of women's status, feminist demands in relation to work must go beyond equal opportunity and equal pay for equal work. A Utopian future in which feminist values are fully integrated into social relations and institutions will be projected. The analysis, while informed by ideal principles, has practical implications and political consequences.

scholarly journals Pay Equity and Equal Employment Opportunity: Policy, Rhetoric and Reality in the 2004 New Zealand Labour Market

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prue Hyman
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Select Committee ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Pacific People ◽  
The Public ◽  
Equal Employment ◽  
The Government

Pay equity (here interpreted as equal pay for work of equal value) has long been official Labour Party policy, although never properly implemented. The recent Taskforce on Pay and Employment Equity in the Public Service, Public Education and Public Health proposes advances in those sectors. At the same time, Part Two of the Employment Relations Law Reform Bill a First Reading Stage would have repealed the only possible, if disputed, legislative underpinning for equal pay for work of equal value in the public and private sectors. After submissions and lobbying, the government sensibly agreed to the Select Committee recommendation to withdraw this from the Bill. The HRC report "Framework for the Future: Equal Employment Opportunities in New Zealand" finds little progress in the employment position of people with disabilities, while the status of Pacific people in the New Zealand labour force is even worse than that of Maori- nor has gender equality yet been achieved. It argues that a lack of equal opportunity creates social tension while New Zealand is being held hack economically through talent being under-utilised. This paper will discuss these reports and developments, government policy and the realities in these areas in 2004 New Zealand.

Sentiment and Prejudice

2021 ◽  
pp. 799-832
Author(s):  
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche ◽  
Annie L. Cot
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Women's Work ◽  
British Association ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Women's Wages ◽  
Equal Work ◽  
Economic Journal

This article describes the evolution of Edgeworth’s thought on women’s wages and on the principle of “equal pay for equal work.” We first document Edgeworth’s early works on “exact utilitarianism” as an epistemic basis for his reflections upon women’s wages. Second, we review his first writings on women’s work and wages: early mentions in the 1870s, his book reviews published in the Economic Journal, and the substantial preface he wrote for the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1904 report on Women in Printing Trades. Third, we document his 1922 British Association presidential address in relation to the burgeoning literature on women’s work and wages within political economy at the time. Finally, we show that his 1923 follow-up article on women’s wages and economic welfare constitutes an update of his “aristocratical utilitarianism” in the post–World War I context.

Un'"ondata di femminismo comunitario". La nascita della politica di pari opportunitŕ della Comunitŕ economica europea (1969-1978)

2009 ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Federica Di Sarcina
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Model ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
European Social Model ◽  
History Of ◽  
Men Workers

- This paper focuses on the birth of the acquis communautaire on equal pay and treatment between women and men in the second half of Seventies, after the approval of the first Social Action Program (1973). Fundamental component of the EEC equal opportunity policy as well as of the current "European social model", the three directives adopted in this period marked a crucial step towards a more balanced labour market for women, notoriously affected by pay discriminations and occupational segregation. Thanks to this legal acts, EEC/EU member States adapted their internal legislation, recognizing and protecting - from a legal point of view - the equality principle between women and men workers established at the European level.Parole chiave: Politica sociale della CEE, Politica comunitaria di pari opportunitŕ, Paritŕ salariale, Modello sociale europeo, Femminismo, Storia del lavoro femminile EEC Social Policy, EEC/EU equal opportunity policy, Equal pay, European social model, Feminism, history of women workers

Equal pay for equal work in radiology: expired excuses and solutions for change

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renu Pandit ◽  
Laura E. Minton ◽  
Elainea N. Smith ◽  
Lucy B. Spalluto ◽  
Kristin K. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Equal Pay ◽  
Equal Work
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