10 Careers That Pay Women More Than Men
Take a gander at any salary-based data, and you’ll likely walk away depressed that men make so much more money than women.
In fact, Glassdoor recently found that nine out of the 10 highest paying careers are male-dominated, while six out of the 10 lowest-paying careers are female dominated.
Womp-womp.
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Disappointing, but unsurprising. There is, however, a very small silver lining here in that the same analysis found 10 careers that tend to pay women higher than men.
If you haven’t decided your college major yet, you might want to take notes.
1. Architecture
Average female salary within five years: $57,000
Average male salary within five years: $50,000
Architecture is one of those college majors that leaves you in the lab sketching at 3 am on a Saturday night instead of at the local frat house doing keg stands. But if you’re cool with that, you can make more money than all the douchebags who try to mansplain CAD to you!
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2. Music
Average female salary within five years: $44,020
Average male salary within five years: $40,000
It’s kind of unclear if this includes female singers and musicians. In that case, it wouldn’t surprise us if women made more money. But considering the average salary, we’re assuming it’s more along the lines of corporate music gigs. If you’re lucky enough to get a job in the industry, stick with it!
3. Social Work
Average female salary within five years: $40,640
Average male salary within five years: $37,500
This is notable because social work is a traditionally female field, and most of the other careers on this list are more male-dominated. Yay for social work!
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4. Advertising
Average female salary within five years: $46,500
Average male salary within five years: $43,020
Sorry mad men, but it looks like the mad women are the ones running the show — or like, at least they’re getting paid enough for the work they do.
5. Environmental Science
Average female salary within five years: $47,000
Average male salary within five years: $44,000
Good news, if environmental science still exists by the time you finish college, you won’t suffer the wage gap!
6. Chemical Engineering
Average female salary within five years: $63,770
Average male salary within five years: $60,480
If you’re cool with dealing with a bunch of nerdy bros who have never seen boobs in their life, this would be a great field for you!
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7. Kinesiology
Average female salary within five years: $43,000
Average male salary within five years: $41,000
Find out how the body works and all that good stuff while making roughly 5% more than your fellow bro-workers!
8. Mechanical Engineering
Average female salary within five years: $68,000
Average male salary within five years: $66,040
Ah, engineering rears its lovely head again!
9. Sports Management
Average female salary within five years: $42,672
Average male salary within five years: $42,000
It pays to be one of few women in the sports field, although unfortunately probs at the cost of some pretty annoying constant bro talk.
10. Anthropology
Average female salary within five years: $41,250
Average male salary within five years: $40,640
Contrary to popular belief, this has nothing to do with the bougie Free People sister-store and more to do with the study of human society and cultures, if you’re into that sort of thing.
