Equal pay for equal work has been and continues to be the law for both public and private employers. These existing laws already make unlawful any wage differentials based on the sex of the employee. Minor differences in degree or amount of skill or effort or responsibility required for the performance of a job does not render the equal pay standard inapplicable. The main foundations for determining what pay should be for particular work are market considerations. The market reflects a balancing of what employers are willing to pay for a skill or service with how much it costs to supply them.
Market prices are the result of supply and demand.
The higher the demand for the skill or service, the higher the pay and, likewise, the lower the demand, the lower the pay. No facts about this unlawful segregation or who is responsible for it are provided. This bill would make the so called undervaluation itself illegal, and equates it to unlawful gender discrimination. Any lawful, non-discriminatory reasons why employees of one sex hold certain jobs and employees of the opposite sex hold other jobs are ignored and are purposely excluded from the process. Since the value of a job changes and differs from person to person, jobs have subjective characteristics.