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Fair pay: Under pay equity, 1.7 million Ontario working women in female-dominated jobs like librarians may be-paid the same as people in male-dominated jobs like caretakers
Fair pay: Under pay equity, 1.7 million Ontario working women in female-dominated jobs like librarians may be-paid the same as people in male-dominated jobs like caretakers

Fair pay: Under pay equity, 1.7 million Ontario working women in female-dominated jobs like librarians may be-paid the same as people in male-dominated jobs like caretakers

Date8/20/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Fair pay: Under pay equity; 1.7 million Ontario working women in female-dominated jobs like librarians may be-paid the same as people in male-dominated jobs like caretakers.
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