The practice of segregating certain jobs by sex, a long-accepted tradition in many in
dustries, has recently come under fire from civil-rights proponents who maintain that
jobs should be compared across categories when wages are determined. Their cause
was fueled by a 1981 Supreme Court ruling that opened the way for discrimination
suits based on job comparability.
As more women seek to close the male-female wage gap through the courts,
hospitality firms present a highly visible target for comparable-worth advocates
