Comparable Worth, Wage Gap, 1981-1985

Report by the U.S. General Accounting Office: Comments on Report on Comparable Worth by the United States Commission on Civil Rights, September 1985; Civil Rights Commission New Perspectives issue on equal right for women, including comparable worth, spring 1985; Pay Equity Trends newsletters, re Yale University pay-equity strike, political party differences, September, November 1984; U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics News, 1985; "An Economic Analysis of Comparable Worth," by Elaine Sorensen, New Labor Review, fall 1982; "Replacing the Marketplace: The Trouble with Comparable Worth," by Jean Yarbrough, The New Leader, November 26, 1984; "Comparable Worth: In Praise of Muddling Through," by Sar A. Levitan and Clifford M. Johnson, The Journal of the Institute for Socioeconomic Studies, summer 1985; concluding chapter of Comparable Worth and Wage Discrimination: Technical Possibilities and Political Realities, edited by Helen Remick, Temple University Pres, 1984; supplementary statement by ILGWU official Gus Tyler to Women, Work, and Wages: Equal Pay for Jobs of Equal Value, National Research Council, 1981; "Investigating the Differences in Weekly Earnings of Women and Men," by Earl F. Mellor, Monthly Labor Review, June 1984; "The Trend in the Male-Female Wage Gap in the United States," by June O'Neill, Journal of Labor Economics, 1985; "Comparable Worth: Where Do We Go from Here? Research Needs in Comparable Worth," Heidi I. Hartmann, published in Industrial Relations Research Association Series Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting, December 28-30, 1984; ILGWU staff memo, "What Is Comparable Worth and How Does It Affect Workers in the Garment Industry?" June 1984; Bureau of National Affairs, Labor Relations Reporter, and Monthly Labor Review articles, 1985; newspaper clippings, many re U.N. Nairobi conference on women