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Pollitt in The Nation…

The big headline .. is that for the first time in our history, women are now 50 percent of the paid workforce… Because the labor force is still quite gender-segregated, mostly they are not competing with men for work. The top ten jobs for women are secretary, nurse, elementary- and middle-school teacher, cashier, retail salesperson, health aide, retail supervisor, waitress, bookkeeper and receptionist. Men have lost more jobs than women in the recession because the ax has fallen more sharply in heavily male fields like construction and manufacturing than in female ones like healthcare and clerical work … It may be easier to find a job as a home health aide than a welder, but male jobs tend to pay a lot more than female ones (and, one might add, do not involve a lot of deferential smiling). Men are still paid more, and promoted more, in virtually every field

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