Shaping Judicial Response to Gender Discrimination in Employment Compensation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7362230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yong S Lee (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 420-420 |
| Publication date | 1989-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/976386 |
| OpenAlex | W2314410048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 1 |
The present controversy over pay inequity between men and women in employment has been unnecessarily limited to a debate on comparable worth. This obfuscates a more general Title VII approach to pay disparities because comparable worth, despite its popularity in the literature, represents only a small part of many complex legal avenues by which discrimination is challenged in practice. Indeed, most recent gender discrimination lawsuits do not neatly fit in the comparable worth framework. It would make more sense if attention were focused instead on what kinds of policies, practices, or nonaction are likely to be in violation of Title VII. Whether comparable worth per se creates a cause of action under Title VII would be an inquiry without much practical significance because most recently the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, once again refused to recognize comparable worth as a viable legal theory in Spaulding v. University of Washington in 1984 [2] and AFSCME v. State of Washington in 1985.[3
Business · Compensation (psychology · Demographic economics · Economics · Employment discrimination · Gender discrimination · Labour economics · Political science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Business Law and Ethics · Law · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2015 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |