Questions whether the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or any other agency of the federal government, has the authority to create guidelines for personnel evaluation in the private sector. (Author/IRT)

This report discusses sex-based wage discrimination, the role of comparable worth doctrine in analyzing or combating such discrimination, and the appropriateness of the remedial prescriptions that comparable worth doctrine envisions. The report consists of a brief introduction and five chapters. Chapter 1 presents a brief overview of women in the…