To in every way equal men, they had to excel in many competitive markets. What appeared so easy from the side-lines soon seemed unfairly competitive in the fracas. This was a shock. The wages offered to engineers go up, while nurses who will work cheap are imported from abroad. The Myth of Women's Liberation in America , Sylvia Ann Hewlett, p 78 There might be a shortage of ditch-diggers, too, but that doesn't mean they should make same wage as engineers.
Engineering is a creative profession, nursing, a service profession.
The wage difference indicates the extent to which the people value practical creativity above service. Sex discrimination has nothing to do it. Because women dominate the service industries, however, pop-feminist pundits would rather make it a gender issue and rail against men than denounce the female pornographers, like Cosmopolitan magazine and the romance novel publishers, who encourage women to prefer glamour and service careers to engineering. This is not opposing oppression, but promoting persecution. Gender Persecution Feminists have rightly asserted that, in some sectors of our society, there has been a bias against women.