A study conducted by Bizjournals.com ranked 112 major occupational groups to determine where how those jobs sized up in terms of pay gaps.  The results paint a picture that is less than desirable for women in business.

Check out the top 10 most equitable occupation groups:

1. Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
2. Food preparation workers
3. Secondary school teachers
4. Cooks
5. Stock clerks and order fillers
6. Packers and packagers, hand
7. Bus drivers
8. Dispatchers
9. Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
10. Counselors

Now let’s take a look at the 10 least equitable occupation groups (with #1 in the following list representing the worst, or least equitable occupation group of all):

1. Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
2. Automotive service technicians and mechanics
3. Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
4. Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters
5. Electricians
6. Preschool and kindergarten teachers
7. Carpenters
8. First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers
9. Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
10. Construction laborers

If there was question prior to seeing this list if stereotypes and discrimination exist in hiring practices and pay structures, I think this list basically proves that those inequalities exist.

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