Quote – John B. Olverson representing the Electronic Industries Association, Testimony, House Hearing.

[Consider] the possible impact of this bill upon efforts to equalize wages in plants employing mostly women and relatively few men. If there is a wage differential between men and women that cannot be justified under the restrictive standards of this bill and the wages of the male employees cannot be reduced, a plant could run into serious financial difficulty if it were forced to increase the pay of all female employees to the level of the few male members.

From the testimony of John B. Olverson representing the Electronic Industries Association at the House hearing “Equal Pay Act.”

Wednesday, March 27, 1963
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