Making Equal Pay for Equal Work a Reality

Abstract

The principle of equal pay for equal work can be conceptualized in two distinct forms. One form is that a woman employed for the same work that a man has been employed for must be paid the same wages as that man. The other form is that two persons performing similar tasks must be paid the same wages. Despite the existence of these two different forms of the principle of equal pay for equal work, one will notice that first form appears to be a subset of the second. If two persons performing similar tasks are paid the same wages, then it follows that this would be the case even where one of the persons is a man and the other a woman.