Is Equal Pay Worth it?

2019/06/05 by Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.31219/osf.io/8cq9j

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Abstract

The paper describes the personal and intellectual trajectories of Millicent Fawcett, Beatrice Webb and Eleanor Rathbone that led them to first oppose the "equal pay for equal work" principle and to support it after the first world war. I focus on their changing economic arguments in relation to their perception of the "facts" regarding women's work and wages during the war effort.

Citations

• Beatrice Webb and the ‘Woman Question’
• Women and the Poor Law in Victorian and Edwardian England

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• The Wages of Men and Women: Should They be Equal? [wikipedia]

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