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Since the 1970s there have been an increasing number of women entering the public sector. This has meant that the government has had to respond to growing female concerns about their position in the civil service. However, the participation of women has not always resulted in equal treatment. Many complaints raised by women's group's concern wage differentials between males and females. The concern is that women are making less than men for work which is equal in value.

Since the 1980s provincial governments have taken action to reduce this disparity with strategies like "equal pay for work of equal value." In Ontario the NDP government introduced the Ontario Pay Equity Act in 1987, which applied to public and private sector workers. This strategy compares the value of conventional women's work to conventional men's work . The objective is that if women's work is comparable, then it should be of equal pay.
Gains have been made by female public sector workers as a result of......

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