&gt;2. Soo... how do latina&#x2F;white women magically end up in a lesser-paying profession?<p>For Latina&#x27;s, it is an SES issue.  Having poor parents negatively impacts life opportunities.<p>As for the difference between women and men, society puts more pressure on men to be the primary income earners, which is one reason men take on vastly more dangerous jobs and work longer hours.  Men are also pressured to take far less time off for children, and single men have less access to having children than single women, thus increasing the pay they earn over the lifetime of a career.<p>&gt;the traditionally oppressed groups -- just happen to have lower-paid fields?<p>Why do men generally have the far more lethal fields?