Question

Since the jobs women have historically taken pay low wages and salaries, proponents of ____________programs attempt not to place women into higher paying jobs, but to increase the salaries of those jobs where women currently are employed.

	1.	Competitive Value
	2.	Competitive Position
	3.	Comparable Worth
	4.	Comparable Equity

Answer 1

ANSWER: 3. Comparable Worth

ie. to achieve comparable and equal salaries for women ,whose jobs require equal skills, efforts &carry equal responsibility , as men working in same types of jobs----without discriminating on the basis of gender.

Proponents of comparable worth theory , believed & argued that both men and women ,working in comparable jobs , requiring comparable skills, efforts & knowledge, produced the same comparable WORTH to the employer.

Hence they were for increase of the currently- low -wages paid to women.