Fast-growing profession offering pharmacists pay six figures-and wages of roughly equal to men and women.
Wrote Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz in the paper on the subject published in September "is probably the most equitable dispenser of all occupations in the United States today,".
Women make up just over 50% of all pharmacists full time, according to the census data collected in 2011. When you factor in, they make up about 55 per cent of the profession.
He got a full-time pharmacists females average salaries from $ 111,000 in 2011, about 92 cents per dollar their male counterparts.
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Yes, there are small wage gap there, but can be explained almost entirely from some guys who work longer hours-non-discrimination.
Goldin and Katz said in the paper, "women with children earn less, largely because they work fewer hours.
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It wasn't always that way. Fifty years ago, women accounted for only about 8% of all pharmacists. What's changed?
Your corner pharmacy. The profession of pharmacist was once dominated by men who own small shops, but the rise of the drug store chain Walgreens (WAG, Fortune 500) and biographies (biography, Fortune 500), Rite Aid (RAD, Fortune 500) a significant increase in employment opportunities for women in the field.
Pharmacists no longer juggle responsibilities and long hours of owning a small business. The chain store less than entry barriers and more flexible work schedules.
"In the 1950s and 1960s, before the real cultural revolution, independent pharmacy owners were a bit reluctant to hire women," said Lucinda Maine, Executive Director, American Association of colleges of pharmacy. "It was just pure, ' were not large enough to lift these boxes ' or ' we're worried about you can close the store at night."
Then came the strings. With longer hours and more staff.
"When we got to the 1980s, half of the graduating class, and the industry needs them," she said.
Professional associations in the field also made an effort to access. "Pharmacists" was elected first President in 1979 and sold to the fact that a woman can be flexible-work part time, for example, if you wanted to raise a family.
"That was really a magnet," Maine, enrolled in the school of Pharmacy at the time. "Could be a health professional. It's a reasonable time to study. The same functionality in a clean, professional, and I have some flexibility in work and life. "
Decades later, the work-life balance continues to attract women for the job. Mandy Pierce, 30, Walgreens pharmacist in Manhattan. Leave after taking off for a few months on motherhood, she soon going back to working part-time schedule.
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Colleges of pharmacy, used to five years of study, and an equal number of male and female graduates in 1984. By comparison, always dominated by nursing schools, and schools Med didn't reach gender parity until 2008.
A pharmacy is now a six-year professional doctorate program that can introduce students directly from high school. High wages for the point of sale.
"For me personally, something important was a good return on investment," said Pierce. "Pharmacy can count on a good livelihood."
Unlike other "female" occupations, wages grew the pharmacist even with women entering the field. You may avoid the curse of "binckolar".
Min said "competition, and a shortage of pharmacists, came to play."
It refers to the early 2000s, when Walgreens alone added a new store nearly every 17 hours. The series sometimes employ nearly half of all graduates of new pharmacy at the national level.
Continuing the jump: Ministry of labour, "expects the field to grow by 25 per cent between 2010 and 2020, adding about 225,000 jobs. Pharmacists are taking on more roles, such as clinical management of immunization and screening blood pressure medication management programs.
Min said "most people think of pharmacists as the person behind the counter, count the grains of large bottle with a small bottle,". "To begin filming the very accurate, inaccurate, especially now. All our new graduates are trained to provide many services. "
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