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From: mazur@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 02:14:39 EST
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Nf-From: inmet!mazur    Feb 19 22:26:00 1985

> What, by the way, are the relative salaries for male and female nurses

Here are some cases of "Same Job, Different Pay".  This is taken from the
January issue of Working Woman.  They cite their source as the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, 1983 annual median averages.

OCCUPATION                WEEKLY (MEN)     WEEKLY (WOMEN)    RATIO 
                                                          %women to men
Physicists/Astronomers       $674.18           166.48         24.7%
Judges                        801.64           433.19         54.0
Dentists                      672.80           403.60         60.0
Social Workers                397.84           308.08         77.4
Computer Programmers          502.76           406.42         80.8
Teachers (except college)     405.52           350.16         86.3
Lawyers                       656.15           576.46         87.9
Registered Nurses             403.12           401.95         99.7

Beth Mazur
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