Myth 3.
The pay for jobs in which women are traditionally employed is about the same as the pay for jobs in which men are traditionally employed.

FACT
Jobs in which men are traditionally employed typically pay 30% more than traditionally female jobs. Two common traditional jobs for women - data entry clerk and secretary - pay $344 and $373 a week, respectively. Mechanics and repairers, jobs predominately held by men, earn an average of $523 per week. Overall, women workers in 1991 were paid $6.77 an hour compared with $8.73 per hour for men, or just 77.5% of what men earned. Full-time year-round annual earnings of women were less than 70% of men's earnings, due in part to the concentration of women in low-wage work.