Assessing equality: Trends in pay scales for men and women 7 Articles

by Celia Craske

Despite equal pay legislation being in place in the U.K. for over thirty years, the gender earnings gap has widened. Part of this difference can be explained by the different working patterns of men and women. Women are...read more

by M. R. Hill

The purpose of the Pay Equity legislation is to mandate against wage discrimination whether this discrimination is included in written policy or implicit in the actions of the employers. The number of acts, conventions, ma...read more

by Apple Trenton

What is the glass ceiling? It is when for no apparant reason, a female employee doesn't get promoted. She has the qualifications, the experience, the right attitude, the motivation to succeed and an impressive track re...read more

by Paul Lines

Equal pay should never be an issue, and that is why the trends in pay scales are moving towards equality. There should be a value for a position, not a duality based upon the gender of the person who holds the position. ...read more

by Pat Veretto

In the last decade, women have been narrowing the gap in the pay scale between them and men. According to CNN archives and New York Times archives, women's pay is increasing at a faster rate than men's. Just how fast, ...read more

by Erik Van Tongerloo

The trend in differences about the pay scales for men and women depend from country to country and surely from continent to continent. I am quite sure that in Asien the trend is that the pay scales for men are higher than...read more

by Melissa Glenn

In 1982 The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was passed into law in Canada. This Charter, (among doing many other things) brought into legislation pay equity for all Canadian citizens. We were probably one of the last civ...read more