Cruising through Huffington Post's 8 Jobs In Which Women Make More Than Men left me more crestfallen than keyed up for women's advancement in the workplace. The slideshow, based on the June 2010 women's earnings report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is meant to offer a glass-half-full perspective on the stagnant gender wage gap. Instead, it's a sad roundup of female-dominated industry sectors doling out paltry pay in comparison to the median men's earnings.
For starters, only three of the jobs - clerks, dieticians/nutritionists and science technicians - pay above women's median weekly income of $657, which is 20 percent less than what the middle-earning man takes home. And although female bakers, kindergarten teachers, beauticians and the rest typically make more than their male counterparts, their income boost is negligible compared to that overall wage gap. In fact, the pink-collar wage gap is less than 5 percent for all of these sectors, except one: dining room and cafeteria attendants/bartender helpers.
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