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If sex discrimination in pay is still a societal problem, job evaluation is the answer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2022

Gerald V. Barrett
Gerald V. Barrett*
Affiliation:
Barrett and Associates Inc.
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*Corresponding author. Email: gbarrett@barrett-associates.com, hkraus@barrett-associates.com
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Abstract

Strah et al. (2021) claimed “pay inequality between men and women remains a salient societal issue” (p. 1). We agree that it is a societal issue, but we believe this issue has already been solved by existing job evaluation procedures. Job evaluation procedures have shown to be reliable and valid methods for assessing whether an organization can meet equal pay standards. The authors presented no scientific evidence that this was inaccurate. In fact, nearly 50 years ago there was considerable evidence that equal pay standards, both scientific and legal, were met by job evaluation.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 61 - 64
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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