It says that but it's not that women choose lower stress jobs. Just a different kind of stress. Children & sick people are stressful.
Both appeal more to men. Nursing and teaching pay poorly despite years of study and training and appeal more to women.
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I'm not disputing why the sexes are interested in given jobs- just that pay is generally decided by supply and demand of prospective
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employees and income potential of the industry.
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But I have not disagreed with this. Neither was it the subject under discussion.
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I was responding to Gorilla. Maybe he misspoke, but he said higher danger pay was a societal decision, as opposed to hiring and rention.
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*retention
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I only point this out bc in the discussion over the 'wage gap' mischaracterization of why/how industries are compensated is often used as a
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tool to further the narrative that women are paid less just for being women.
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Indeed.
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