In most plants, pitted tracheids function as the primary transport cells. The other type of tracheary element, besides the tracheid, is the vessel element. Vessel elements are joined by perforations into vessels. In vessels, water travels by bulk flow, as in a pipe, rather than by diffusion through cell membranes.
A federal law, the Equal Pay Act (EPA), requires employers to pay men and women equally for doing the same work -- equal pay for equal work.The Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963 as an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act and can be found at 29 U.S.C. Â§ 206.he EPA was passed one year before Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Both laws prohibit wage discrimination based on gender, but Title VII goes beyond ensuring equal pay to barring discrimination in all aspects of employment, including hiring, firing, promotion, and more.
Wisconsin's Equal Rights Law led Alice Paul to begin drafting a national Equal Rights Amendment, with language specific enough to force the Supreme Court's hand on gender discrimination issues. constitutional amendment which would deprive women of their 8-hour day would not be a measure giving equal rights but on the contrary would add to the already heavy handicap of the un-organized working woman.'Mrs.