Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap

Congratulations!

You have completed ERI DLC Course 32: Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap.

You should now be able to:

  • Differentiate between access discrimination and valuation discrimination
  • Identify possible reasons for a gender-based pay gap
  • Recognize how women’s workforce participation, job segregation, job experience, and cultural norms have impacted the pay gap
  • Recognize how education, unions, and civil rights legislation have helped to close the pay gap
  • Specify how gender-based pay differentials are permitted under the Equal Pay Act
  • Determine how two jobs may be substantially equal
  • Differentiate between the concepts of equal pay and comparable worth
  • Recognize trends in pay transparency
  • Identify factors used to set equitable pay
  • Recognize how to screen for pay discrimination using statistical methods, job evaluation, and a pay policy line
  • Identify how to prevent gender pay differentials through job analysis, job evaluation, hiring and promotional practices, and pay for performance