GENDERED INSTRUCTIONS - CULTURAL LAG AND GENDER BIAS IN THE HAY SYSTEM OF JOB EVALUATION

This article investigates the structure of gender bias in the Hay system, the dominant system of job evaluation. It shows not only how the system perpetuates gender-based occupational assumptions stemming from its origins in the 1940s and 1950s, but also how it conceals these assumptions under a veneer of gender neutrality. The Hay system consistently values male-dominated management functions over nonmanagement functions more likely to be performed by women.