Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal Volume 24 | Issue 2 Article 6 2007 Finding Worth in the New Workplace: The Implications of Comparable Worth's Reemergence in the Global Economy Daniel N. Kuperstein Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlelj Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Kuperstein, Daniel N. (2007) "Finding Worth in the New Workplace: The mpI lications of Comparable Worth's Reemergence in the Global Economy," Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal: Vol. 24: Iss. 2, Article 6. Available at: http://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/hlelj/vol24/iss2/6 This document is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarly Commons at Hofstra Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons at Hofstra Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Kuperstein: Finding Worth in the New Workplace: The Implications of Comparabl FINDING WORTH IN THE NEW WORKPLACE: THE IMPLICATIONS OF COMPARABLE WORTH'S REEMERGENCE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY I. INTRODUCTION Despite the success of civil rights laws over the last three decades to increase women's pay and workplace involvement, discrimination and other problems involving women in the workplace persist, presenting a necessity for new legislative solutions.' Although increased globalization and the impact of the knowledge economy 2 have brought 1. See KATHERINE V.w. STONE, FROM WIDGETS TO DIGITS: EMPLOYMENT REGULATION FOR THE CHANGING WORKPLACE 157 (2004) [hereinafter STONE, WIDGETS TO DIGITS] (noting that as a likely result of U.S. civil rights laws "the pay of white women working full time relative to that of their white male counterparts increased from 57.9[%] in 1965 to 71.3[%] in 1995," but that discrimination "now often takes new forms").