This volume provides a detailed description of the situation of women in employment in the early 1990s and considers how sociological and economic theories of labor markets illuminate the gap in pay between the sexes.

1: Segregation and the Pay Gap; 2: Theories of Labor Markets; 3: Pay in Female and Male Occupations: Findings from National Data; 4: Job Evaluation; 5: Pay Equity and the Federal Courts; 6: Feminism and Other Philosophical Positions; 7: Policy Debates