Implementing comparable worth/pay equity: Experiences of cutting-edge states

Public Personnel Management

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 475-489

  Gardner, Susan E ^a   Daniel, Christopher ^b  

^a Kentucky Dept of Fin Institutions   (United States)

^b KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032325322     PISSN: 00910260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009102609802700404     Document Type: Article

References (29)

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3. 3 Moore and Abraham, 455.
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14. 14 Phone interview with this article's principal author, April 1995.
15. 15 Phone interview with principal author, April 1995.
16. 16 Phone interview with principal author, April 1995.
17. 17 The Legislative Budget Committee reported that the state will have spent closer to $442 million between 1986 and 1993.
18. 18 Phone Interview with principal author, April 1995.
19. 19 Phone interview with principal author, April 1995.
20. 20 New York's state government workforce is 90% unionized.
21. 21 Phone interview with principal author, April 1995.
22. 22 County of Washington v. Gunther, 456 U.S. 161 (1981).
23. 23 Phone Interview with principal author, April 1995.
24. 24 Phone interview with the principal author, April 1995.
25. 25 Larry S. Lutton and Marsha L. Reilly, 1995, "Comparable Worth and Pay Equity: From Legal Principal to Negotiating Point", in Jack Rabin, Thomas Vocino, W. Bartley Hildreth, and Gerald J. Miller (eds.), Handbook of Public Personnel Administration. New York: Marcel Dekker, p. 443.
26. 26 Cook, A. H., 1991. "Pay Equity: Theory and Implementation", in Carolyn Ban and Norma Riccuci (eds.), Public Personnel Management; Current Concerns - Future Challenges. New York: Longman, pp. 100-113.
27. 27 Acker, J., 1987. "Sex Bias in Job Evaluation: A Comparable Worth Issue" in C. Bose and G. Spitze (eds.), Ingredients for Women's Employment Policy. Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 183-196.
28. 28 Steinberg, Ronnie J., 1995. "Gendered Instructions; Cultural Lag and Gender Bias in the Hay System of Evaluation", in Jerry A. Adams (ed.), Gendered Inequality at Work. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 57-92. This article also appeared in Work and Occupations, Vol. 19, No. 4, (November 1992).
29. 29 Steinberg, p. 85.