[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Whats being claimed on this thread is that males do the lesser paid jobs that noone wants to do...and this is the reason why men earn more than women?

I do agree that childcare is a huge reason for the gender paygap though. Its more...'traditional' for women to stay home with the kids whilst the man works. Or for the woman to go part time.

Another fairly obvious reason though is...age 30+ you are more likely to be getting promotions and rising to the top of the career ladder. It IS harder for females to do this, even without kids to 'hold them back'.

No that's not the reason they earn more than women in a lifetime.That's conflating two different issues but when women are doing dangerous and manual jobs in the same numbers as men and getting paid equally over a lifetime then their will be true equality....

However if we accept that men and women are different and there are some roles suited more for a particular gender then that probably is part of the reason for the pay gap.Maybe some female oriented roles do need a wage increase.However i would'nt class the beauty industry etc as those.

Most women have kids and i would say that has a huge impact on the pay gap in higher paid jobs.Specially those involving commision.