> It doesn't exist because different occupations create different amounts of value.
> It's also why you generally don't see men being homemakers, teaching young children, nursing
You seem to be saying that if you look only at a single profession you'll see men and women being paid the same.
This is incorrect.
You seem to be saying that if we look at, say, nursing, we'll see many more women, but that those women will be paid the same as male nurses.
This is incorrect.
When we look at health care staff by profession, gender, and payband we see that the entry level have a high number of women to men, but that as you go up the pay bands we see the ratio changing. This happens even for midwifery, but is especially marked for ambulance staff which starts at 60:40 male female split at band 5 but ends at a 95:5 male female split at band 8d.
See this comment for a link to a dataset from the English NHS.
> It's also why you generally don't see men being homemakers, teaching young children, nursing
You seem to be saying that if you look only at a single profession you'll see men and women being paid the same.
This is incorrect.
You seem to be saying that if we look at, say, nursing, we'll see many more women, but that those women will be paid the same as male nurses.
This is incorrect.
When we look at health care staff by profession, gender, and payband we see that the entry level have a high number of women to men, but that as you go up the pay bands we see the ratio changing. This happens even for midwifery, but is especially marked for ambulance staff which starts at 60:40 male female split at band 5 but ends at a 95:5 male female split at band 8d.
See this comment for a link to a dataset from the English NHS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335076