Pay Equality for Women

My experience of pay equity for women is a mixed bag.  Through a great deal of my time working for county government I had an immediate supervisor that was a women and during almost all that time my supervisor made more money than I did. Three times in a career of over thirty years, the executive director of the agency was a women. Twice during my career, women came from an outside agency and blocked promotion from inside the agency.  The nature of these appointments could be rationalized as political in nature as new mayors or county managers were hired and their people were located in our agency.

Governmental work is pretty much cut and dried.  Job titles and salaries are related to educational background and experience and the minimums are established.

There are always exceptions to the rule and it was interesting to watch the gyrations that would go on if "the boss" wanted to get approval for a new position, change somebodies job title to justify an increase in salary.  Sometimes these changes were approved, but not always.

One thing I'm sure of is that there were efforts to promote and advertise openings for all.  This wasn't always a gigantic success and in some ways because of the very political nature of jobs, job training, welfare, welfare reform, and unemployment issues, and disaster relief programs we had our share of dog and pony shows.