Even when they're trying to do "equal pay for equal work", the categories are basically always complete bullshit, and effectively always in women's favor.
The categories are always nonsense because that makes it easier, and it is actually true that you can't categorize every job perfectly, but they're often laughably broad, like saying a social worker and a stock broker are in the same category because they both require a major in social sciences (that is a real example).
It's effectively always in women's favor because, across the board, men choose higher paying fields, so when you start lumping random jobs together, the chances of lumping low-paying women-favored professions with high-paying men-favored professions is extremely high.
So even when they're trying to compare the same jobs, it's complete anti-man lies. When they're not even pretending to care that the jobs are the same, it's going to be on a whole extra level of fiction.
Even when they're trying to do "equal pay for equal work", the categories are basically always complete bullshit, and effectively always in women's favor.
The categories are always nonsense because that makes it easier, and it is actually true that you can't categorize every job perfectly, but they're often laughably broad, like saying a social worker and a stock broker are in the same category because they both require a major in social sciences (that is a real example).
It's effectively always in women's favor because, across the board, men choose higher paying fields, so when you start lumping random jobs together, the chances of lumping low-paying women-favored professions with high-paying men-favored professions is extremely high.
So even when they're trying to compare the same jobs, it's complete anti-man lies. When they're not even pretending to care that the jobs are the same, it's going to be on a whole extra level of fiction.