[quote=poorgradstudent]However, you are correct it does vary by field. Tech and medicine tend to have much smaller gaps than manufacturing and financial services, for example.[/quote]I would have to agree on the similarity in salaries in tech. I could understand the disparity in manufacturing. The ‘manufacturing’ category has many subsegments within it with significantly different salaries. Where I work, we have assemblers and machinists. The salary difference between the two categories is significant, as is the technical difficulty of the work. Assemblers are staffed primarily with women. I have not seen a woman machinist @ work.. yet(it can also be a bit dirty/messy). As for disparity in financial services.. I can understand why, but I don’t agree with it. We have all seen that the financial industry acts like a big ole boys club.. in more than one way.
