i feel like when we discuss the gender pay gap there’s this underlying idea people have that women choose these underpaying fields/jobs when in reality these fields/jobs are underpaid BECAUSE they’re women dominated and often have been for centuries. female labour has always been undervalued and that translated into being underpaid.
nurses/teachers/etc aren’t getting shitty pay because society believes it’s an easy/unskilled/unnecessary job, they’re getting shitty pay because they’re mostly women and society never views women’s labour as valuable or important.
