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Old 2006-01-29, 15:59   Link #22
Archuka
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Finland
Age: 37
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Originally Posted by arias
This is a dangerous statistical generalization. Does it apply the same WITHIN jobs?

Apparently people did such research and made general claims like "female professors earn less than male professors in Universities", and upon deeper investigation there was an underlying reason found. Basically, female professors were mostly those of the social sciences or the arts, while male professors dominated the hard sciences. Hard science (medical, physics, biology, astrophysics, etc) professors earn more money than non-science professors in general. It was also found that within departments, the wages between sexes were equal (and in some cases, the females were paid more).

This bubble has been burst, but the myth persists.

Don't depend on statisticians to do your thinking for you.
I have read some statistics of this but I can't quite remember what it said. I believe there were certain jobs where males earned more than females while other jobs paid equally to both male and female workers.
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