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> But I will say that it’s a repeated trend that when women enter an industry, pay for that industry in particular goes down (this happened to teachers for example).

Could this just simply be because women are increasing the labor supply, and thus driving down the cost of labor in that field?

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Whilst that may be true, it's common in many fields for women to get paid less than men doing the same jobs. This has become such an issue that in some places organisations and now required to report on their gender pay disparity, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/gender-pay-gap...

Whenever I've looked closely at such statistics, it's pretty much never been the case that men and women are doing exactly the same job.

That is usually a symptom though, e.g. paying men more on average because they are in more senior positions on average.

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