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Comparable worth, as a standard applied to eliminate inequities in pay, insists that the values of certain tasks 1. Which of the following most accura y performed in dissimilar jobs can be compared. In the last states the central purpose of the passage? decade, this approach has e a critical social issue, as large numbers of private-sector firms and industries ▪ (A) To criticize the implementation of a as well as federal, state, and local ernmental entities have new procedure adopted comparable worth policies or begun to consider ng so. ▪ (B) To assess the significance of a change This widespread institutional awareness of comparable worth in indicates reased public awareness that pay inequities--that is, situations in which pay is not fair because it does not ▪ (C) To illustrate how a new standard reflect the true value of a job--exist in the labor market. alters procedures However, the question still remains: have the gains already made in pay equity under comparable worth pr iples been ▪ (D) To ex in how a new is of a precedent-setting nature or are they mostly transitory, a function of concessions made by employers to mislead female applied in specific cases employees into believing that they have made long-term pay ▪ (E) To summarize the changes made to equity gains? date as a result of social Comparable worth pay adjustments are indeed precedent- setting. Because of the pr iples driving them, other mandates that can be applied to reduce or eliminate unjustified pay gaps between male an