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The law, to protect vulnerable women workers, requires "equal pay for equal work." But if the work is not "equal" in terms of skills, responsibility, and so on, the employer can pay male-dominated skills more than he pays female-dominated skills. Thus, a Denver Hospital paid its groundskeepers (male) more than it paid its nurses (women). The nurses asked the hospital to measure the worth of the job and set the wages accordingly. Thus developed the concept of "comparable worth." In 1984, a judge in Washington ordered the state to adopt a "comparable worth" program, and the state appealed. Three Republican congresswomen wrote the White House urging that the government not support the appeal. The correspondence was turned over to [John G. Roberts], and he wrote counsel [Fred Fielding] that...
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... justified by any difference in the relative worth of the predominantly male and the predominantly fe... was that the complaint pleaded a comparable worth case and that a failure to pay employees in ...
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Comparable worth notions - Brief Article
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No Vouchers or HomeSchooling NEA resolutions cover the waterfront of all sorts of political issues that have nothing to do with improving education for schoolchildren, such as supporting statehood for the District of Columbia, a "single-payer health care plan" (i.e., government-run), gun control, ratification of the International Criminal Court Treaty, and taking steps "to change activities that contribute to global climate change." All the Feminist Goals NEA resolutions include all the major feminist goals such as "the right to reproductive freedom" (i.e., abortion on demand); "comparable worth" (i.e., government control of wages according to feminist ideology rather than the free market); full funding for the feminist boondoggle called the Women's Educational Equity Act; and "the use...
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Equal Rights Amendment, pay equity, comparable worth ... the ERA of my teen years is back with all the false statistics and class and gender warfare. Paid family leave combats poverty, gives children a healthy start, and lowers the wage gap between women and men by providing structural support to balance work and family.
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More than 20 years ago, Mayor Bob Isaac persuaded City Council to back a then-novel compensation plan for city employees called "comparable worth. Responding to complaints from female clerical/administrative employees that their salaries were far lower than those of employees in traditionally male jobs, like truck drivers, Isaac backed sweeping change.
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The treaty is currently burdened with a number of Reservations, Understandings and Declarations (RUDs), several of which would exempt the U.S. from taking actions to "interfere with private conduct" when there is sex-based discrimination, and relieve the U.S. government from any obligation to adopt paid maternity leave or counter wage discrimination by enacting legislation that establishes comparable worth standards.
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Chalk one up for the public. Salt Lake County residents stopped County Councilman Randy Horiuchi's proposal to raise council members' pay. It shows what residents can accomplish when they speak out. It caused Horiuchi to withdraw his plan that would have almost doubled County Council members' current pay to more than $80,000. He said it was needed because of the increased workload they have to handle. They are already paid more than other local and legislative officials. One might wonder if a "comparable-worth study" on what they produce now would show they are overpaid and call for a cut in pay.
