Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...direct response to the ineffectiveness of the Equal Pay Act--which mandates that men and women holding the same job must draw the same salary--the "comparable worth" argument holds that all people should receive pay commensurate with their contribution to the company--regardless of their specific job duties. The Equal Pay Act "doesn't work because there are no men doing the same work women are," Snyder says. "We're put in low-paying, low-status jobs and stuck there...
...Civil Liberties Union also contends that the bill violates the "equal protection" provision of the state constitution because it discriminates against the poor...
Massachusetts feminists are invoking the state's Equal Rights Amendment to strike down a state law denying women Medicaid funding for abortions--a move that may so link the two issues that it could jeopardize the federal ERA's chances for ratification...
...people are born free and equal and have certain natural essential and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting propert; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin...
...like the medals on a war hero's chest. He graduated from Harvard with honors and from Yale Law School. Before he was 30 he became an assistant to McGeorge Bundy, who was National Security Adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and then was named chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thus when Jimmy Carter in 1977 appointed Clifford L. Alexander, now 47, the Army's first black Secretary, he seemed well suited for the job, even though his only previous military experience was six months as a private...