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Gender and Pay Equity: Future Research Directions
Author(s) -
Whitehouse Gillian
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/1038411103041001028
Subject(s) - disadvantage , equity (law) , gender pay gap , multidisciplinary approach , inequality , pay equity , meaning (existential) , economics , public economics , equal opportunity , labour economics , political science , psychology , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics , wage , psychotherapist
Pay inequity, like other aspects of women's disadvantage in employment, has persisted in spite of longstanding measures designed to eradicate it. In Australia, equal pay initiatives led to a marked improvement for women in the early I970s, but recent advancement has been limited, both here and in many other advanced industrialized countries. Observers could conclude that pay equity research and strategy have reached an impasse. This paper identifies a range of current difficulties in researching pay inequity, and argues that, if strategy is to be effectively informed, future research will need to include enhanced ways of clarifying the meaning of the ‘gender pay gap’ and multidisciplinary investigation of the forces inside and outside the labour market that perpetuate and reproduce pay inequality.