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The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity: Is Comparable Worth the Next Step? (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Dec. 20, 2004
Report Number 98-278
Authors Linda Levine, Domestic Social Policy Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

This report examines the trend in the male-female wage gap and explanations in the economics literature for its existence (i.e., human capital and discrimination models). Remedies proposed to reduce the gender wage gap are addressed, with an in-depth focus on the comparable worth approach to achieving pay equity between women and men.