[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

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.

As do most men tbh.

I agree with the rest of your post. I go against 'acceptable' opinions on the male/female jobs thing too. I DO think that men are better suited to some jobs based purely on biology. Ie. Jobs that require a lot of strength are (IMO) better suited to males as males are generally much stronger than females. Of course there are exceptions, but as a group, men are stronger than women...and theres nothing wrong with accepting this. It almost seems to be an unacceptable opinion that men (for example) make better police officers, firefighters and such than women. As a whole, not on an individual basis. And thats just silly. there are huge differences between the sexes. Both in how we are built and what hormones do for us...