For most of recorded history, men's pay has tended to be higher than women's.
This both reflects and underpins gender roles, with men's authority more highly
valued socially as well as economically. In Unequal Pay for Women and Men,
Heather Joshi and Pierella Paci look at why gender pay inequality matters. They
argue that no amount of training, maternity and parental leave, or child care
provisions will change women's economic status if pay treatment remains
unequal--if the market values men's time more than women's.The book is the
result of an extensive study of the relative wages of British men and women
between 1978 and 1991. Using two