If these other, comparably skilled jobs pay more and women have the skills necessary to do them, they should just apply for them so they can get paid more.

This is so asinine.

If a nursing home worker is in just as much danger, or maybe even more, as the article says, as a prison guard and it's the same skills, work at a prison and get paid more. But that doesn't happen. Almost like those two jobs aren't the same and should pay differently.