Last November, a federal judge in Tacoma, Washington, made national news by ruling that the state had discriminated against women. Sex discrimination lawsuits are hardly new to American life, but the issue in Washington was not whether the state was willing to hire women, or whether it offered equal pay for equal work. Rather, it was whether the 15,000 state workers holding traditionally female jobs—nurses and secretaries, for example—should be paid the same as those holding “comparable” male-dominated jobs in different trades, like plumbing or carpentry.
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