"comparable worth" meaning in English

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        {
          "ref": "1987, Linda M. Blum, “Possibilities and Limits of the Comparable Worth Movement,”, in Gender and Society, volume 1, number 4, page 382",
          "text": "Comparable worth aims to upgrade the wage scales for jobs that employ large numbers of women.",
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        "The principle that there should be no difference in remuneration between jobs held mostly by women and jobs held mostly by men, when the women's work is comparable in skill, effort, working conditions, and responsibility to the men's work."
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          "remuneration",
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        "(chiefly US) The principle that there should be no difference in remuneration between jobs held mostly by women and jobs held mostly by men, when the women's work is comparable in skill, effort, working conditions, and responsibility to the men's work."
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        {
          "word": "equal pay for equal work"
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        {
          "word": "pay equity"
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  "word": "comparable worth"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1987, Linda M. Blum, “Possibilities and Limits of the Comparable Worth Movement,”, in Gender and Society, volume 1, number 4, page 382",
          "text": "Comparable worth aims to upgrade the wage scales for jobs that employ large numbers of women.",
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        "The principle that there should be no difference in remuneration between jobs held mostly by women and jobs held mostly by men, when the women's work is comparable in skill, effort, working conditions, and responsibility to the men's work."
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        "(chiefly US) The principle that there should be no difference in remuneration between jobs held mostly by women and jobs held mostly by men, when the women's work is comparable in skill, effort, working conditions, and responsibility to the men's work."
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