Lapidus, Jane; Figart, Deborah - In: Feminist Economics 4 (1998) 3, pp. 7-28
Case studies in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. have found that pay equity (or comparable worth) has reduced the gender …-based wage gap substantially, and results of research on the gender composition of jobs have been used guiding pay equity … discrimination is alleviated by a pay equity policy, which is why activists have also supported anti-discrimination and affirmative …