[regedit728]

We can go back and forth about this. I'll counter with garbage collectors (chiefly men) having to deal with liquid trash, you'll talk about female secretaries having to deal with harassment, I'll talk about emergency frontliners having to deal with the worst of society, and so on.

And we see the similarity here: they're all relatively low-wage jobs.

The comparison here shouldn't be between high-paid jobs (doctor) and low-paid ones (nurse), rather between low-paid jobs and other low-paid jobs.

The bottom line is that those with lower-wage jobs will be the ones having to deal with the worse things, but generally-speaking women tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs. Think teachers, nurses, secretaries against soldiers, police officers, construction workers.

[shkkmo]

> but generally-speaking women tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs

"Comfortable" is hard to define and I see it easy to argue that jobs such as nursing, with the stress, insane schedules and such, is far less comfortable than equivalent jobs. It's such a subjective term and the different types of comfort vs stress means that arguing about it seems mostly pointless.

However, it's pretty clear that more dangerous jobs are far more likely to be traditionally male roles.

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> tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs. Think teachers, nurses, secretaries against soldiers, police officers, construction workers.

> less dangerous, more comfortable

I don't think a modern school or hospital is more comfortable or safe than a squad car. To be completely fair the difference between a police officer and a nurse and teacher is that the former can defend himself and claim he "was afraid for his life" while the latter can't.

[tsss]

A skilled welder can make more money than a secretary (not to mention a logger or oil worker), but the secretary can probably work from home and the welder can not. At the end of the day, the __vast__ majority of those dirty physical jobs are done by men, whereas women mostly do more comfortable office work, regardless of pay.