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boom boom boom posted:In discussions of the wage gap I've seen previously, the people who brought up women working lower wage jobs thing did it to argue against the wage gap. "Of course a nurse is going to be paid less than a doctor", they would say. I'm surprised to see that used as an argument for the existence of a wage gap. In addition to unequal pay to women compared to men doing the same job, people doing "women's work" are paid less than those working in male-dominated jobs with equivalent skills, responsibilities, and emotional and physical demands. It's not just a matter of more men tending to be doctors, or whatever. Our Employment Court ruled a couple of years ago that aged care workers were underpaid, a decision that has been upheld at every turn since: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11533228
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