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I don't agree with the first point at all. Not enough men work genuinely risky/dangerous jobs that it's going to significantly inflate their earnings. I'd wager than most men and most women face similar levels of risk at work. Sure, more men work in dangerous jobs than women but these jobs are...

There can be many reasons for the difference. My point was that it makes more sense to compare like for like than to compare a meaningless average.

A problem with this is that the stats are not used correctly. Generally, what is done is that they just compare the "average" wage of all full-time male workers with full-time female workers. The better stats to use are Employee Earnings and Hours by the ABS which looks and male and female...