Equal pay will be very difficult to enforce unless you make salaries public. I can assure you that among your peers there are plenty of differences in compensation.
Equal pay will be very difficult to enforce unless you make salaries public. I can assure you that among your peers there are plenty of differences in compensation.
I suspect that people who work in tech, closely follow tech news, and spend their free time posting in tech-industey-centered forums often miss things like campaigns for diversity in skilled manual labor not because such campaigns don't exist, but because of where their attention is focussed.
http://news.sky.com/story/white-van-woman-held-back-by-sexis...
The parent comment makes a good point. There are few (if any) calls for diversity in regards to "dirty" jobs.
For what it's worth, there were 3 female crew members with which I worked at the remodeling company. None of them had issues turning a pipe wrench. It's seriously not as strenuous as you seem to think. Have you tried it?
Edit: I also feel like you are missing the point, which is that there is relatively little call for diversity outside of "more women in STEM".