HOURS EQUITY IS THE NEW PAY EQUITY.

The article focuses on pay equity structure in the U.S. and discusses the working hour inequity faced by the low-wage part-time women workers in the U.S. It analyzes the part-time worker's place in the modern workplace and reflects on the frameworks regulating workplace fairness in the U.S. including Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It mentions the role of lobbying in filling the statutory gaps in workplace regulation.