Since equal pay for equal work has been enforced by most western nations for over thirty years now (equal pay for equal work in terms of it being illegal to discriminate against women by paying men more for doing the SAME job.)
A NEW scam has been dreamt up by feminists in order to win extra privileges for women.
This is called equal pay for equal WORTH and apparently this subtle twist has been tested under the existing equal pay act in the UK and found to be a 'correct' interpretation of the meaning of the act!
The implication of this is a huge bill for taxpayers up and down the country because for example it has been successfully argued that 'dinner ladies' (people usually women who serve school meals to school children) street labourers and 'binmen'(i.e. rubbish collectors) are all jobs of 'equal worth'! No one in all this pc gone MAD FIASCO seems to have had the sense to simply point out a very pertinent fact i.e. that it is already ILLEGAL to discriminate against an applicant on the basis of their sex.
This being the case when those dinner ladies started their WHINING why weren't they simply shown the door and told in no uncertain terms that if those jobs are 'similar' and of 'equivalent worth' then why did they NOT apply for them??

some relevant links from the UK on this issue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/6360253.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/1515501.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/6293625.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1086245.ece
http://www.carverslaw.co.uk/html/news_tt_14-10-2006.asp