Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform (Women in Culture and Society) - Softcover

Evans, Sara M.; Nelson, Barbara N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226222608 ISBN 13: 9780226222608

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

"This pathbreaking study sets forth the history of attempts to implement pay equity and evaluates the hidden costs of achieving equity. With candor and intelligence, the authors clearly detail the political, organizational, and personal consequences of comparable worth reform strategies. Using extensive data from Minnesota, where pay equity has proceeded further than in any other state in the nation, as well as comparative information from other states and localities, the authors expose the crucial initial steps which define public policy.

"A perceptive and judicious analysis of comparable worth."—Wendy Kaminer, New York Times Book Review

"Very well-crafted. . . . Wage Justice has admirably launched the scholarly evaluation of pay equity, revealing the unforeseen complexities of this key feminist public policy innovation."—Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Journal of American History

"An insightful glimpse of the policy process."—Marian Lief Palley, American Political Science Review

About this title

About the Author:

Sara M. Evans is professor of history and Barbara J. Nelson is professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, both at the University of Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0226222608
• ISBN 13: 9780226222608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238