She Works Hard for the Money: Tackling Low Pay in Sectors Dominated by Women – Evidence from Health and Social Care
In this working paper by the
European Trade Union Institute, Torsten Müller shows that workers in lower-skilled health and social care assistant positions earn considerably less than the national average wage. He suggests that the higher the proportion of women in the sector, the lower the average relative income, and that this applies also to skilled nurses and midwives as well as lower-skilled assistant professions. The wage penalty for working in female-dominated sectors and occupations such as health and social care can be explained by the underfinancing and privatisation of social care, weaker bargaining power in these sectors than in many male-dominated sectors, and the fact that care work is subject to a general undervaluation of what is often seen as “women’s” work.
https://www.etui.org/content/download/37008/371337/file/WP 2019.11 She works hard for the money Müller WEB.pdf
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