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Jobs in which women are traditionally employed pay salaries comparable to jobs in which men are traditionally employed.

FACT: Jobs in which men are traditionally employed typically pay 30 percent more than traditionally female jobs. Two common traditional jobs for women, data entry clerk and secretary, pay $344 and $373 a week respectively. Mechanics and repairers, jobs predominately held by men, earn on average $523 a week. Overall, in 1991, women workers were paid $6.77 an hour compared with $8.73 for men, or just 77.5 percent of what men earned. For full-time year-round annual earnings, women's earnings were less than 70 percent of men's earnings, due in part to the concentration of women in low wage work.

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Adapted from the Orientation to Nontraditional Occupations for Women (ONOW) Curriculum of the Ohio Department of Education; the Women in Highway Construction manual of the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Labor; 20 Facts on Women Workers (1990), U.S. DOL Women's Bureau; and 1993 Handbook on Women Workers: Trends and Issues, U.S. DOL Women's Bureau.
 
 
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