Number of male nurses triple; average pay: $60,700/yr. Female nurse average pay: $51,100.

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39. Who literally advocates that the hourly rate be higher based on gender?

I advocate that women should not be punished because they bear children and are expected to take more time off to care for their families. That isn't necessarily the responsibility of employers to address it, but if there was some kind of decent paid leave or increasing flexibility across the board, it would mean several things: women (and men) who took on the tasks of caring for their families would not have to face negative financial consequences for doing so; men might be more willing to do the care-taking now and then, which would provide women with more free time and opportunity to devote to more demanding careers, and would allow men more time to be with their loved ones; there would be more equality for both genders in terms of their time at work and their time at home--meaning we could really get the best people in the best positions, whatever their gender, rather than the people with the most free time to devote to education and work, who happen to generally be male.

What is unfair in that position?