Equal pay laws are ineffectual when women and men are concentrated in different occupations because such laws require only that women and men doing the same jobs be paid the same.

当女性和男性集中在不同的职业时，同工同酬法就不起作用了，因为这样的法律只要求做同样工作的女性和男性得到同样的报酬。

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The teacher told her it was a "fairy tale" and that none of the occupations she listed were women "s jobs."

老师告诉她那是一篇“神话”，因为她所列举的工作没有一项是女人能够做的。

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Weinberg’s research has shown that in occupations in which “people skills” are becoming more important, jobs are skewing toward women. And that category is large indeed.

魏因贝格的研究表明，在重视“社交技能”的工作中，职位在向女性倾斜，而且存在大量这类工作。

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Over the past three decades, the American workforce has seen a widening gap between wages for high and low-skilled occupations and a hollowing out middle-wage jobs, say New York Fed Economists.

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Reducing the dropout rate of women in STEM careers is especially important because women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more than those in non-STEM occupations and the wage gap between men and women in STEM jobs is smaller than in other fields.

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And we have also raised the skills level so it is only open to graduate-level occupations - and excludes other jobs like careworkers and cooks.

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