Equal Pay and Comparable Worth and the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission

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In 1985 the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission affirmed the equal pay principles adopted by the 1972 Equal Pay Case. It also rejected the comparable worth doctrine advanced by the Council of Action for Equal Pay. At the same time the commission failed to acknowledge the extent to which its 1972 wage-fixing practices reproduced gender inequalities. It is argued that the attempt by the Council of Action for Equal Pay to bring about the introduction of gender-neutral wage-fixing practices was unsuccessful because it was not based on an understanding of how the 1972 practices reproduce inequality, or of how various institutional factors affect the extent to which the commission will accept particular doctrinal arguments such as comparable worth.

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