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Old July 25th, 2013 #12
Alyy
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Originally Posted by Jean West View Post
In the seventies, fully employed females with high school and college educations earned less than fully employed males with less than eight years of school. The earnings gap had increased from 36% to 43%. Women in male-intensive occupations earned more than women in female-intensive occupations. Men in female-intensive occupations earned more than women in female-intensive occupations. Employers discriminated against women by assigning them lower job grades than men with the same qualifications; by assigning them different titles than men with same qualifications; by failing to promote or upgrade them as they did males; and by failing to grant them training and apprenticeship opportunities.

Within each occupationsl area, women automatically prepared for the lowest-paying jobs. Women prepared for supportive, rather than management occupations, even within female-intensive fields. Within the clerical area, the occupations dominated by women (bookkeeping, calculating machine operators, keypunch operators, secretaries) paid an average of $6,500, while the occupations dominated by men (computer equipment operators, insurance adjustors, examiners and investigators, real estate appraisers, and shipping and receiving clerks paid between $9,000 and $15,000. The higher the average earning for an occupational group, the fewer the number of women employed in that group.

In the seventies, this was the income hierarchy: white male high school dropouts earned more than black male high school graduates who earned more than white female college graduates who earned more than black female college graduates. In 1970 half of all working women were concentrated in 17 occupations, while half of all male workers required 63 different occupations to account for them.

The five most common occupations for men and women were (Title, Salary, Educ.):

Female:
Teacher ($6,883) (16.6)
Secretary ($4,803) (12.7)
Bookkeeper ($4,477)(12.5)
Sales Clerk ($2,208) (12.2)
Waitress ($1,662) (11.5)

Male:
Foreman ($10,018) (12.2)
Truck Driver ($7,246) (10.5)
Operative ($6,896) (11.3)
Farmer ($4,816) (10.7)
Janitor ($4,771) (9.9)

The DOT (Dictionary of Occupational Titles) has been the basis on which public and private agencies evaluate prerequisites, career ladder criteria, and classification and compensation hierarchies of large corporations. A 3-digit code describes complexity. According to DOT ratings (which have since been changed), for example, pet shop attendants, newspaper delivery boys, marine mammal handlers, barbers and dog trainers were all rated as more complex than nursery school teacher or nurse, and thus paid more.
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Men tennis players play more games in the 'opens' and receive the same pay as women tennis players.

Men play up to 5 sets and women 3 sets.