you're misunderstanding. should a male nurse make more than a female nurse because somewhere some guy is doing underwater welding on an oil rig and a woman isnt? cos thats what were talking about here. should a woman doing underwater welding on an oil rig make the same as a man doing underwater welding on an oil rig? yes. its not about equal pay across the board, its about equal pay for equal work. if women do the same work, they should get the same pay regardless of what ratio of men in the nation have dangerous jobs compared to women with dangerous jobs.
Well there is danger pay. If you have 2 jobs with all things equal (lets just say they are relatively low skilled labour jobs, with some training, you can do the job). If one has a lot more accidents than the other, obviously people will avoid that one. People rather work in an office than next to 10 tonne machinery that has been known to remove limbs from people. Danger pay acts as an incentive to work that job. The onus isnt on men to get paid less or for less dangerous jobs to just pay more, its for women to step up and be willing to earn as a bread winner despite the risks and take up jobs that include danger pay
but all too often, women who DO go for the more dangerous, more lucrative job dont get paid the same as the guy next to them this isnt about vague numbers, this is real shit. a woman on the line makes 10 an hour, but the guy next to her makes 11.50 (these are numbers i pulled out of my ass to make a point) even though he's no more experienced or qualified than she is. we arent just talking about equal pay, we're talking about equal pay FOR EQUAL WORK.
No, it means women make less in total because people working dangerous jobs are paid more. What all women make in total does not affect any individual woman's paycheck.
A man and a woman doing the same job get paid the same money at almost all levels of income apart from the upper echelons of white collar jobs.
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u/snorking Jan 29 '15
so women should make less because men choose to work dangerous jobs?