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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

So people with different jobs got paid different amounts?

What was stopping the women from working in the warehouse?

As with any manual labour job, it's more physical-strength-intensive and therefore a harder job for most women than for most men, however as neither requires more skill nor qualifications, I think it's very justifiable to say that the roles should have income parity, because women should not be at an income disadvantage because of a completely unavoidable disadvantage in suitability for certain roles. They should have a flat wage structure for unskilled roles with pay variations coming in with experience/managerial roles.

I'm not a huge fan of the age-banding that Niamh mentioned either; all people over 16 should be paid the same hourly wage for doing the same jobs. Labour (and that labourer's time) is not less valuable because of the age of the labourer. It also encourages the hiring of younger people as cheap temporary labour instead of creating real, permanent roles.