Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Committee on Women’s Employment and Related Social Issues 
Comparable Worth [PDF ebook] 
New Directions for Research

Comparable worthequal pay for jobs of equal valuehas been called the civil rights issue of the 1980s. This volume consists of a committee report that sets forth an agenda of much-needed research on this issue, supported by six papers contributed by eminent social scientists. The research agenda presented is structured around two general themes: (1) occupational wage differentials and discrimination and (2) wage adjustment strategies and their impact. The papers deal with a wide range of topics, including job evaluation, social judgment biases in comparable worth analysis, the economics of comparable worth, and prospects for pay equity.