Found another interesting r/askReddit ..Did you get a chance to see this? It Seems like a good chance to spread some truth on the gender gap and pay differences in the work force.

Nobleone11 · 2021-01-27T21:39:30+00:00

And once again the meddlesome mods couldn't resist removing the OP content.

philippmoreau · 2021-01-27T16:34:11+00:00

We're not anymore in 1963 when women used to get paid less (for the same job per hour). We're in 2021 in the West. It is illegal there to pay one sex for the same job less and might result in high fines.

We can't expect to have exactly 50% of each gender in each branch if we give all the choice to study in a field they want to or work in a branch of the personal choice. There will necessarily be differences in the percentage of women and men in the different branches.

In which fields are the best paid jobs that women are the majority or vast majority in?

• Pharmacy

• Medicine

• Biotechnology

• Chemistry

• International trade

• Real estate

• Nursing

In which fields are the best paid jobs that men are the majority or vast majority in?

• Machine construction

• Information technology

• Automatisation technology

• Metallurgy

• Petrochimics

• Petrol engineering

• Electrical engineering

• Business Administration, business consultancy

• Robotic engineering

• Finance and investment

• Aircraft pilots

• Construction, e.g. bricklayer

• Mining

Why is the salary higher for some jobs than others, regardless of which gender works in it? Because of the relation between offer and demand that applies to the labour market as well. All the mentioned jobs and branches have one thing in common. There's a scarcity of qualified employees and workers. Companies compete with each other with certain salaries to get sufficiently employees and workers. The company that pays little might lose the employee or worker to another conpampany.

For low paid jobs there's a multiple times higher offer of new employees than there is demand. If an employee leaves the company, 20 other applicants might do the job.

Why don't more women strive for jobs in the branches they know of that they pay the highest? My interpretation is that many women choose the job or job branch based on personal interest and coincidentally many of them are not that well paid.

Many men also choose the job based on personal interest but coincidentally the job fields pay well. The percentage of people that chooses the job or job field primary based on the salary might maybe be higher among men. Some external, internal and societal factors might be the reason for that. I haven't done a psychological analysis with professional support to be able to claim any of that with certainty.

I'm in favour of stopping to discourage women by society to work in male dominated fields and stopping to discourage men by society to work in female dominated fields.

This way we give both genders the advantages and disadvantages of both gender dominated job branches because salary isn't the only factor. There is also how dangerous a job field is (93% of work fatalities are male; truck drivers, police officers, bricklayers, soldiers, security guards, painters, petrol engineering are examples of male dominated jobs or job fields) or working in extreme weather conditions (extreme cold or heat), e.g. in construction, and with high risks for health, again like in construction (e.g. there are so many bricklayers get their back for life screwed) or also canalisation. Working in production/industry is also very unhealthy and dangerous generally speaking, due to machine accidents or the usage of chemicals, another male dominated field. Fishery is another high risk male dominated branch. Huge waves crash from time to time fisherboats. Mining is another high risk job field and sometimes the tunnels collapse and the workers get crushed or die due to the lack of oxygen.

To give women the advantages of the other gender (e.g. salary) but making the other gender keep the disadvantages (e.g. being dangerous, unhealthy, screwing e.g. the back for life) is NOT equality. That's priviledging one gender.

Raising the salaries artificially in the low paid branches doesn't work (on large scale countries) because this way the branches that already have too much employee and worker offer will have even more respective labour offer in the future if we raise their salaries and the branches with traditional scarcity of workers and employees will have even more scarcity (e.g. technical engineering). Why work in branches that have an over-demand if I get a nice salary in branches with over-offer of labour?

That's why I'd encourage women to work in male dominated fields and men to work in female dominated fields. Stressing the word 'encourage', thus not 'trying to force'.

I'm in favour of equal pay (per hour for the same job) for women and men in the countries that don't have this already (mostly developing countries).

_Nick_Furyy_ · 2021-01-28T22:52:51+00:00

Exactly, if the wage gap wasn't a myth, women would have more career opportunities because they are cheaper to pay than men. And us men won't get any work because we are more expensive.

Found another interesting r/askReddit ..Did you get a chance to see this? It Seems like a good chance to spread some truth on the gender gap and pay differences in the work force.

Crosspost "If Women get paid less then Men, why don't companies hire all Women?" from /r/AskReddit:

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