The following excerpt is from the self help psychology book, Be Your Own Therapist. Of course there should be equal pay for equal work. Of course any qualified person should be seriously considered for any position. Also, there are obviously many women who enjoy nonverbal physical jobs and many men who are most comfortable in verbally-oriented tasks.
Society needs to accept and provide equal opportunities for such choices.
But I think the statistics will be forever unequal, even if we come to a society with no sexism. This automatically will lead the majority of men and women to different choices in work. Ideally, our work should be what interests us the most and also what we do best. Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. Virginia Wolff I doubt that equal male-female representation in any job category is either likely or desirable.