In lower paid occupations, when wages have been reduced, workers have added hours in overtime or extra jobs to preserve their living standards.

对于薪资较低的职业，工人会在薪资降低时增加加班的时间或者做额外工作，以维持他们的生活水准。

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Equal pay laws are ineffectual when women and men are concentrated in different occupations because such laws require only that women and men doing the same jobs be paid the same.

当女性和男性集中在不同的职业时，同工同酬法就不起作用了，因为这样的法律只要求做同样工作的女性和男性得到同样的报酬。

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Job losses have been “far more severe in middle-skilled white- and blue-collar jobs than in either high-skill, white-collar jobs or in low-skill service occupations.”

“失业对于中等技术水平的白领或蓝领职业的影响要大于高技术的白领职业或低技能的蓝领职业”。

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Reducing the dropout rate of women in STEM careers is especially important because women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more than those in non-STEM occupations and the wage gap between men and women in STEM jobs is smaller than in other fields.

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By 2010, despite the proportion of high skilled occupations rising to 28.3% of all jobs, the percentage of persons with degree qualifications who were in high skill occupations fell to 56.6%.

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Of the top 10 occupations projected to grow in jobs in this decade, half are female-dominated.

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