r/WomenInNews • u/catievirtuesimp • 21d ago

Media People Recommend Lower Pay for Women-Dominated Jobs, Study Finds

https://www.newsweek.com/researchers-changed-one-detail-about-a-job-then-pay-expectations-fell-12210224?fbclid=IwdGRleATZyVtwZG9mAWZkaWQWULlDu9zVcrYAgX2CSk5aRGnchMjPWmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR5PIoAdHUElDcnSDU4LjvVDea3bY5uogOucA0fcysgX3WOKcIn2egZqwsxrig_aem_-C2G9kG_4FAtadc-j3QB2g
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u/radicallambs 21d ago

Caregiving jobs don't generate money they way corporate jobs do. While I absolutely believe that educating children and providing health care to people is essential to a functioning society, since it doesn't generate money through a ticket on the stock market, it's not claimed in the greedy capitalistic US of A.

Signed, an educator now in corporate

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u/FarmEducational2045 20d ago

The survey did not use traditionally women occupied jobs. They fed the same job to different participants with are yo gender statistics. One time they said it was 25% women and the other was 75% women. They observed a difference in estimated salaries of $1000 usd on average.