%0 Book %A National Research Council %E Hartmann, Heidi I. %T Comparable Worth: New Directions for Research %@ 978-0-309-03534-7 %D 1985 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/55/comparable-worth-new-directions-for-research %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/55/comparable-worth-new-directions-for-research %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Behavioral and Social Sciences %P 192 %R doi:10.17226/55 %X Comparable worth—equal pay for jobs of equal value—has 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.