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Underpaid?
Comparing pay rates is a notoriously difficult
task. It has been getting harder as well, with employment contracts
becoming increasingly individualised. However this problem may be coming
to an end. In 1999 three Dutch women developed a comparative Women's
Wage database. This was launched online in partnership with the Dutch
union federation FNV and the University of
Amsterdam. In 2001 the service was extended to include male workers, and
more recently it has gone international. Wageindicator now covers nine European countries, and
India, South Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Hungary and the United States
are coming on-line in mid 2005. This is too big and too important a
project to summarise here, but make a point of checking it out for
yourself at www.wageindicator.org/
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