The Equal Pay Act: the first 30 years.

From: Public Personnel Management | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: Crampton, Suzanne M.; Hodge, John W.; Mishra, Jitendra M. | Copyright information

Two major acts have been passed to eliminate gender discrimination within the workplace - The Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Equal Pay Act was the first law to suggest that the pay of women should be equal to men when their positions are equal. The purpose of the Equal Pay Act was to secure equal pay for women when they have jobs similar to men and to seek to eliminate discrimination and the depressing effects on living standards caused by reduced wa...

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