One step forward in the direction of the 1963 Equal Pay Act came 21 years earlier when the Federal Government decreed that all women working in defense plants must be paid the same amout as the men performing the same jobs:
“George W. Taylor, War Labor Board vice-chairman, wrote the decision and said that any other condition than that of pay equality was ‘not conducive to maximum production’.”
“Taylor pointed out that more and more women will be called to industry as the war progresses and said -”
“In calling upon American women to assume a vital role on the industrial front, the country has an obligation to provide the utmost assurance that they will not be subject to discrimination. They have the right of economic equality.”
