Pharmacist: most equal employment opportunities for men and women

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. "

First published: 11 February 2013: 5: 26 am et

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More older women are saying Bah! retirement

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CHICAGO-Susan Damour fell into retirement. Tried it at the age of 64 years in 2008, together with her husband, Tim, who was 68. It took a year.

Foreign travel, cooking and knitting baby sweaters for the grandchildren were not such as to satisfy her. Tim, a former lawyer, was happy but that she hated.

"I'm an extrovert," says Damour. "I draw my strength from people, and I want to be in an environment, dealing with problems. Retirement was, as if they got into jail. "

Fortunately for her, the Obama administration soon after the elections in 2008, it again asks the General Services Administration, which manages the building contracts and contracts for the Government.

Served as the regional administrator of GSA'S Rocky Mountain region for the six States during the Clinton era, and she returned to the same position near the end of 2009.

Now 69, Damour loves his work, which often gets out of Denver and this time focuses on promoting environmental initiatives in government buildings, something she deeply cares about.

Damour's experience illustrates one of the most surprising the latest u.s. economic trends: the growing presence of women working beyond traditional retirement age, in their late 60s, 70s and beyond. It will be the fastest-growing segment of the work force in the next five years, according to the Ministry of labour.

The number of working women over the age of 65 rose 147 percent from 1977 to 2007; those over 75 have increased 172 percent, according to the Ministry's Bureau of labor statistics. Over the next five years, the number of older women in the workforce is growing at a pace faster than younger women and older men almost twice, the FBI said.

Some of the growth can be attributed to the economic drudgery, but many women say that they make for lost time after raising children or excluded from male dominated jobs in their younger days. Others can't imagine to turn back hard-won career gains.

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Increasing life expectancy and the aging of the baby boom, partly explain the trend. Nearly 75 percent of 55-to 64rok olds will work in 2018, compared to 65% in 2008, forecasting, Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone. Also think that 30 percent of Americans age 65 to 74 will work at this time, up from 25 percent in 2008.

Some scientists believe that something else is in the game. Elizabeth Fideler, a researcher at the Sloan Center on aging & work on Boston College and the author of "women at work: experts for over 60 and at work," studied cohort, and they believe that they are doing a slow career starts.

"Many of them face discrimination based on sex," he says. These women have entered adulthood in the 1950s and early 1960s, before the women's movement began when the career options that were close and we need help ads were separated by gender.

At that time, most working women flowed into nursing, secretarial, teaching or social work. Finally, many switched to other careers. It was a hard-won achievements.

"They're damned if they surrender," says Fideler. "He has reached the pinnacle of my career and I don't want to stop, even if their husbands have to retire."

This was true for Damour, who graduated from College in 1965 with a limited career options.

"I remember, says my mother, when I was a girl, that I wanted to be a judge, and she told me that I can't do that, because the girls are not lawyers."

A young couple, she worked in a series of low paying jobs, had a child and divorced at the age of 30 years. But the active role of volunteers in progressive political causes led her to a position in the 1974 gubernatorial campaign of Colorado Dick Lamm. This indirectly led to her first stint on the GSA.

These days, Damour works 40 to 50 hours a week.

"I don't get tired, because I'm a high-energy person and I love my job," he says.

She has to introduce, into retirement again-never?

"I am going to stay in this job, how long will they keep me, and then I'll be revisiting" says.

The Latebloomers
Ann Kaganoff, 76, is another late bloomer. Irvine, Calif., resident began her career as an elementary school teacher. Reading and language development in its 36 years, entered a doctoral study at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

"My dad said that I needed to be a teacher so that they will always be able to provide for themselves," he says. '' But in College, I discovered I was a good analytical thinkers, and it was exciting. "

It is not really career Kaganoff flew up to the year 1985, when at the age of 50 years old, started and ran a clinic for children with reading and learning problems, University of California at Irvine.

"I learn new things all the time," he says.

In 1992, the clinic is closed, a victim of budget cuts at the University. Today Kaganoff believes that it is on top of my professional growth with a private therapy practice in Irvine, and she herself stepping away any time soon.

"Experience is cumulative," he says. "Every time I go to a meeting, I realize the wealth of background to draw on."

Fideler corresponds to the profile. 70 and already at work on a follow-up book on the second fastest growing age group in the labour force: men over the age of 65.

Older men working for the same career success and revenue rewards that motivate women. But perhaps Fideler, you find that men simply grow tired of watching your wife to go to work every morning and spend the day alone.

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