Equal Pay Statistics In Your World 
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Fair Pay

Roadside notice, 1974

Read this notice.

  1. Is it fair? Give a reason.

Before 1976, men and women could be given different pay for the same job.

In December 1975, an Equal Pay Act made this practice illegal.

  1. Would the 1974 notice be legal now?
  2. Draw a notice that would be legal, or write down what it would say.

Men and women often do different jobs. A woman operating a sewing machine may get much less than a man working on an assembly line.

  1. Is this legal? Which of the two jobs requires more skill?
    Are the different pay rates fair?
  2. It is not easy to say what is fair pay for different. jobs. Write down one reason why this is so.
  3. How would you decide if women were being paid fairly?

 

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