Ladies in waiting
Tags: GENDER inequality; EQUALITY in the workplace; WAGES -- Women; WAGES -- Men; DISCRIMINATION -- Law & legislation; EQUAL pay for equal work
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- Other Legislation. // Labor Law Journal;Oct49, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p11
The article reports that senators from Alaska, California and Maine have enacted equal pay laws. The Alaska measure provides that no employer may employ any female in any occupation at salary or wages rates less than the rates paid to male employees for work of comparable character or work in...
- EOC pushes to close pay gap. // People Management;1/15/2004, Vol. 10 Issue 1, p9
Highlights the campaign entitled "It's time to get even," launched by the British Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) to publicize its research finding on a pay gap between women and men working full-time. Details of the campaign; Suggestion of EOC to human resource, according to EOC...
- Women's Work, Mother's Poverty. MINK, GWENDOLYN // New Politics;Winter2010, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p14
The article discusses a woman's place in the U.S. labor market and gender wage disparities. The focus of the article is whether or not a man's wage is the best cure for the economic insecurity of women. The author notes that the Democratic Party agenda confined the measurement of women's...
- The Gender Pay Gap: Have Women Gone as Far as They Can? Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. // Academy of Management Perspectives;Feb2007, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p7
The trends in the gender pay gap in the United States form a somewhat mixed picture. On the one hand, after a half a century of stability in the earnings of women relative to men, there has been a substantial increase in women's relative earnings since the late 1970s. One of the things that make...
- Women still waiting for pay equity. Richards, Debbie // Australian Nursing Journal;Feb2010, Vol. 17 Issue 7, p26
The article discusses a November 2009 pay equity report highlighting the continuing wage gap between men and women in Australia.
- Women are still underpaid. Baker, Jennifer Pope // Indianapolis Business Journal;4/16/2012, Vol. 33 Issue 7, p11A
The author argues the need for the central business to step with fair pay and encourages everyone to become an Equal Pay Day supported and progress in closing the gender earnings gap in Indiana.
- UK failing to achieve workplace equality. Prasad, Gagandeep // Personnel Today;9/5/2006, p23
The article compares the British employment policy with Swedish employment policy. Equal pay and sex discrimination legislation have been in force in Great Britain since 1975, but according to a report after child-birth, most women fall under low- to mid-level skilled job category. Swedish...
- Pay and the gender gap: can the new system deliver for nurses? Parish, Colin // Nursing Standard;11/15/2006, Vol. 21 Issue 10, p13
The article discusses gender pay gap in nurses and the effect of Agenda for Change pay system implemented in Great Britain. In 1970, the Equal Pay Act was approved for to make it illegal that men and women are paid differently. However, data from the Office for National Statistics shows that...
- NEGOTIATING TO BRIDGE THE GENDER WAGE GAP. Olekalns, Mara // Government News;Jun/Jul2012, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p56
The article discusses how to address the gender wage gap in Australia through negotiations. It states that compared to men, women are more hesitant to initiate negotiations. It says that the absence of social capital has consequences for the economic outcomes of women in the long term. It says...
