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In reply to the discussion: Number of male nurses triple; average pay: $60,700/yr. Female nurse average pay: $51,100. [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)41. A deeper why: why do the women take vacation and sick time, but not the men?
In general, the statistics show that women are taking more time off to care for their families. This is work that must be done for society to function, but is unpaid, and that disproportionately falls on women. As a society we could acknowledge that and pay decently for it; many countries in Europe and around the world do this. If we did, maybe the disproportionate earnings of men and women wouldn't be such an issue; maybe men would take more time off, and women would take less, and the entire issue would disappear. But because we don't acknowledge this reality, women are faulted for a burden which is unequally placed on them, and then economically penalized for it. As such, our response to this unfairness is to be expected.
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Number of male nurses triple; average pay: $60,700/yr. Female nurse average pay: $51,100. [View all]
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
OP
You don't need a nursing degree to move a patient; they have aids/orderlies for that.
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
#45
Are you saying women should get paid more than men because they have a uterus?
davidn3600
Feb 2013
#31
No, I am saying that we should acknowledge what a uterus does and not punish women for having one.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#34
So, pay each mother a certain amount of money every year for having and rearing a child?
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#36
But the article also says that for each type of nursing, men get paid more than women.
pnwmom
Feb 2013
#26
"Each type of nursing" = 4 'types' -- nurse practitioner, anesthetist, RN, & LPN in the report.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#59
Since the overall gap = 9%, I expect that most of it can be explained by just those kinds of
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#58
It still isn't just for women to suffer economically because we bear children.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#13
The responses to this thread were so far off the point that I had to make my own thread
antigone382
Feb 2013
#10
"even when you compare the same nursing positions (apples to apples), men make more."
redqueen
Feb 2013
#17
It's the mentality that says women don't need to make as much because they are being supported
duffyduff
Feb 2013
#25
A deeper why: why do the women take vacation and sick time, but not the men?
antigone382
Feb 2013
#41
That has little to do with it. The REAL reason is the attitude of our society and employers that
duffyduff
Feb 2013
#49
Well, having studied occupational sex segration I would say time off has a fair bit to do with it.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#53
We have a weird pay structure: the less you touch the patient, the more you get paid.
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
#54
It has not been sufficiently addressed, and pregnancy is a choice a man will never have to make.
antigone382
Feb 2013
#43
If more men are gravitating towards the more high-paying nursing professions than women,
OceanEcosystem
Feb 2013
#33
The question is why are men gravitating to those positions more than women?
antigone382
Feb 2013
#40