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See Community; Comparative Health-Care Sys-
tems; Health Promotion and Health Status;
Medical Sociology.COMPARABLE WORTH
‘‘Comparable worth’’ is one approach to increas-
ing pay equity between jobs done primarily by
women and minorities and those done primarily
by majority men. It refers to equalizing compensa-
tion for jobs requiring comparable levels of effort,
skill, and responsibility. The concept of compara-
ble worth defines ‘‘equal work’’ as ‘‘work of equiva-
lent value,’’ a broader concept than limiting ‘‘equal
work’’ to meaning the ‘‘same work.’’ Comparable
worth uses job-evaluation methods to establish
equivalencies of different jobs in order to identify
and correct disparities in pay between jobs held
primarily by women and minority men and jobs
held primarily by nonminority men. It is worth
noting that the term pay equity is often used in
conjunction with discussions of comparable worth;
it usually refers not only to comparable worth but
also to other approaches to achieving equity and
justice in wages. Pay equity is the best subject
heading or ‘‘key word’’ to use when doing further
research on the topic of comparable worth.