During the 1980s, pay equity emerged as a major employment and
economic issue. Pay equity is proposed as one solution to the gap in
wages between white men, women, and men of color. There is an
abundance of information on this issue, but little attention has been
paid to it in the social work literature. This article discusses the
relevance of pay equity for social work and suggests strategies for
achieving it.
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