The Nation - News from Sept. 11, 1985
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Saying women must be allowed to escape a “wage ghetto,” lawmakers and labor leaders urged Congress to order a study of whether women in the federal work force are victims of pay discrimination. “We won’t be satisfied until every single American is paid fairly in this country,” Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio), who has introduced legislation to that effect, said at a Washington news conference.
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