Doctors are still mostly men, and nurses are almost all women.
But pharmacists are another story. Pharmacists are a fast-
growing profession offering a six-figure salary -- and the pay
is nearly equal for men and women. "The position of pharmacist
is probably the most egalitarian of all U.S. professions today,"
Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz wrote in a
paper on the subject they published in September. Women make up
slightly more than 50 percent of all full-time pharmacists,
according to Census data collected in 2011. Once you factor in
part-timers, they make up around 55 percent of the profession.
Full-time female pharmacists earned a median salary of $111,000
in 2011, about 92 cents to the dollar of their male
counterparts. Yes, there's a small pay gap there, but it can be
almost entirely explained by some men working longer hours --
not discrimination. "Women with children earn less largely
because they work fewer hours," Goldin and Katz said in their
paper. It wasn't always this way. Fi