Saying women don’t want the highest-paid jobs won’t wash any more | Suzanne Moore

Compulsory reporting has revealed the shocking extent of Britain’s gender pay gap – and the old excuses don’t explain it

Equal pay for equal work seems such a stunningly fair concept, who could argue against it? Well, in theory no one; but the myriad ways not to pay men and woman equally, and to divide that work up and redefine certain parts of it as more valuable, have now been made visible. Women, it is often said, don’t want to do the same jobs as men. We are too balanced, too intelligent, too caring to be so driven.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2HejY5a