No Male Comparators: The Doubling Up of Discrimination on Pay Equity

Women seeking pay equity in women-dominated professions often encounter structural barriers to equity in the form of the “no male comparator” (NMC) analysis built into pay equity legislation. NMC is a symptom of larger societal inequities in the workforce, but it also serves as a catalyst to further entrench discrimination, which has the effect of reducing the societal value accorded to women-predominant professions. In this article, I engage …