A national newspaper reports on the issue of equal pay stating that women still only receive 83 cents for every euro that a man earn. The labour markets have compartmentalised most occupations by sex: there are men's jobs and there are women's jobs. Almost without exception ‘men's jobs’ are paid better than ‘women's jobs’. For example, a man who drives an industrial machine receives 800 euro per month more than a nurse who has required the same amount of training to do her job.
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