FOR WOMEN HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE U.S. Congress, Senate. THE LIBRARY OF JAN 29 1946 OUT.SOURCE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR. UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1178 A BILL PROVIDING EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK 79384 OCTOBER 29, 30, AND 31, 1945 Printed for the use of the Committee on Education and Labor 46-2565 UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1946 6746 CONTENTS Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (statement). Mary Anderson, chairman of the special committee for the Federal equal pay bill and former Director of the Women's Bureau of the Depart- John W. Gibson, special assistant to the Secretary of Labor. 173 Ann James Herlihy, statistical analyst, National Federation of Telephone 144 Elinore M. Herrick, New York Consumers League and the National Con- 193 Margaret A. Hickey, president of National Federation of Business and 111 Lewis G. Hines, legislative representative, American Federation of Labor. 121 30 Mrs. Henry A. Îngraham, president of Young Women's Christian Asso- 150 Intraplant wage relationships, Research and Statistics Report No. 29, 83 Job evaluation plans involving equal pay for equal work, National War 99 Al. Philip Kane, general counsel for the National Federation of Telephone 129 League of Women Shoppers, Inc. (statement) 110 Clifford McAvoy, Washington representative, United Electrical, Radio, 161 Frieda S. Miller, Director of the Women's Bureau, United States Depart- 9 National Council of Catholic Women (statement). National Council of Jewish Women (statement). 109 188 National War Labor Board policy on equal pay for equal work for women, 41 Bertha Nienburg, Business and Professional Women's Clubs of the Dis- 148 Occupational wage relationships, machinery, 1945, Bureau of Labor Sta- 64 J. R. Owens, legislative representative, United Rubber Workers of America, Ella Jean Polinsky, selections from master's thesis submitted to American 168 III Page Marguerite Rawalt, president, Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 150 Charles E. Sands, international representative, Hotel and Restaurant Em- ployees' International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of Mrs. Harold A. Stone, director of the National League of Women Voters- Jane H. Todd, deputy commissioner, Department of Commerce, New Agnes Winn; assistant director, Legislative and Federal Relations Division, 116 Hon. Chase Going Woodhouse, United States Representative from Con- 153 EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK FOR WOMEN MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1945 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, Washington D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m., in room 324, Senate Office Building, Senator James M. Tunnell (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Tunnell, Guffey, and Morse. Senator TUNNELL. We are starting hearings this morning on S. 1178, a bill providing equal pay for equal work for women, and for other purposes. S. 1178 is as follows: [S. 1178, 79th Cong., 1st sess.1 A BILL Providing equal pay for equal work for women, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, PURPOSE AND TITLE OF ACT SECTION 1. (a) The Congress hereby finds that the existence in industry of differentials based on sex is an inequity in compensation standards which constitutes an unfair wage practice and (1) leads to labor disputes; (2) depresses wages and living standards of employees, male and female; (3) interferes with and prevents the maintenance of an adequate standard of living by such workers and the families dependent on them for support, and in particular has serious detrimental effects on the standard of living of families of deceased or disabled veterans; (5) prevents the maximum utilization of our available labor resources and plant capacity essential for full production, in war and in peace; (6) endangers the national security and the general welfare, and thereby burdens, affects, and obstructs commerce. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act, through the exercise by Congress of its power to regulate commerce among the several States, to correct and, as rapidly as possible, to eliminate discriminatory wage practices based on (b) This Act may be cited as the "Women's Equal Pay Act of 1945." sex. PROHIBITION OF WAGE RATE DIFFERENTIALS BASED ON SEX SEC. 2. It shall be an unfair wage practice for any employer engaged in commerce or in transactions or operations affecting commerce to discriminate between the sexes (a) by paying wages to any female employee at a rate less than the rate at which he pays or has paid wages to male employees for work of comparable quality and quantity; or, (b) by laying off or discharging any female employee and replacing ́her 1 |