Resurrecting a bad idea

Mickey Kaus, an avowed Democrat, doesn't see anything wrong with John Roberts' opposition to 'comparable worth'.

Put simply, comparable worth would require that judges adjust market wages for jobs that were historically disproportionately male or disproportionately female.

It assumes that this would be to the benefit of women, but there's no reason to believe that it wouldn't just harm men by adjusting wages down.

Not only was that a bad idea, but it has been discredited long ago:

All these arguments were made at length in neolib publications like the New Republic and Washington Monthly decades ago. Unfortunately those articles are so old they're pre-Google and pre-NEXIS.