The Nation : Comparable Worth Hit

Comparable worth--the doctrine seeking pay equality between men and women if their jobs, though different, are of similar difficulty and skill levels--was denounced by the Administration’s chief civil rights enforcer as an instrument for “redistribution of wages.” “Comparable worth is a theory which has as its central aim solely to accomplish a redistribution of wages and salaries in this country along gender lines. . . ,” Assistant Atty. Gen. William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, told a symposium at the Georgetown University Law Center.