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Someone should push for gender quotas in fields dominated women in earning & number .... just to remind people that both genders , have an edge that causes these disproportionalities

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Interestingly, fields in which women dominate tend to have lower pay. [1] So even where the playing field is in their favor sexism wise, the system still gets them.

So not sure forcing gender quotas on them will prove any point.

1. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=women+dominated+fields+pay+gap&t=h...

fields in which women dominate tend to have lower pay

Fields where men dominate tend to have greater risk of death or injury on the job. 97% of deaths at work were men. Could it be that when averaged out safer jobs pay less?

https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/fatalinjuries.pdf

I imagine that's not the case for tech (approximately the subject of HN) and finance (the topic of the article), so while the fact may be true on average, I'm having trouble seeing its relevance here.

I imagine that's not the case for tech (approximately the subject of HN) and finance (the topic of the article), so while the fact may be true on average, I'm having trouble seeing its relevance here

I'm replying to a comment which doesn't make that distinction either. But finance is notorious for the health problems in the field. Heart attacks and other stress related fatalities are not uncommon. And in tech there's burnout.

Teaching and nursing, which iirc are dominated by women, also have serious stress and burnout while paying less than tech.

I also suspect the parent comment wasn't referring to tech and finance as the dangerous male-dominated jobs.

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