TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - Heidi I. Hartmann TI - Comparable Worth: New Directions for Research SN - 978-0-309-03534-7 DO - 10.17226/55 PY - 1985 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/55/comparable-worth-new-directions-for-research PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences AB - 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. ER -