Proactive in nature, the Quebec Pay Equity Act requires of employers to take steps to correct wage discrimination against female-dominated jobs, in other words, to respect the principle of equal pay for work of equal value. This article offers a critical thinking of this Act that has been in force since 1997. I examine some elements which appear to me to have an impact on the processes of pay equity accomplished in workplaces and I express some doubts as to the attainment of pay equity in all businesses covered by that Act. Without denying the law’s potential for change, my observations show that the Pay Equity Act is struggling to redress the wage gap in men’s favour and to significantly increase professional equality for women in Quebec.