Gender In Labor Markets and Organizations

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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, saying Title VII of the Civil Rights Act "does not obligate Washington State to eliminate an economic inequality it did not create."
Further, Kennedy said the nature of the plaintiffs' thinking (the logic of their thinking) was misguided. Following that decision even the chairman of the Civil Rights Commission, Clarence Pendleton, Jr., a Reagan appointee, joined the symphony of critics of comparable worth in the workplace, calling it "the looniest idea since Looney Tunes." That sets the tone for this fine work. In the subsequent portions of the book, Nelson and Bridges go back in time to methodically analyze various legal cases that led up to the Civil Rights Act of 1963, and to Title VII of that Act, which made pay discrimination in the workplace based on gender a violation of federal law. The book also explores sex discrimination claims and lawsuits, and most importantly, offers careful analysis of four empirical studies ...

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the math" in terms of how that differentiation functions. It is far more systematically shrewd - and even esoteric beyond the lay person's grasp - than the narrative by Nelson & Bridges.
At the outset of presenting their case, as to how they derived at certain decisions, the researchers set the stage meticulously; they explain that first, productivity and productivity-related characteristics "account for a significant portion of the male-female earnings differential. And second, "the fact that men and women tend to be employed in organizations with different characteristics" can in part explain male-female earnings differential. They carefully rule out "organizational ...

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