[T]he inevitable effect of this legislation will be to create an artificial barrier on job opportunities for women. There will be a strong compulsion on employers to divide their jobs into women’s jobs and men’s jobs and to never hire a person of the opposite sex in those jobs just so they will not have the Department of Labor looking over their shoulders.
From the testimony of William Miller representative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at the Senate hearing “Equal Pay Act of 1963”.
Tuesday, April 2, 1963
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