1. Best/Worst Jobs for Women Based on Pay Equity. Tired of hearing about how female lawyers lag behind men in the legal profession? Well, listen and learn, ladies! NPR recently posted jobs with the biggest and smallest gender gaps in pay, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Jobs with the smallest gender gap (where women make 93 percent or more of the men's earnings) are:
- Health technician
- Counselor
- Pharmacist
- Buyer (wholesale and retail)
- Office clerk
- Social worker
- Cafeteria worker
- Data entry clerk
- Paralegal
