a few points here:
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My research was the article I linked to, which lists different figures than you list (in total the wages from the article were about 10k more in terms of median wage across the ten professions that you listed), though it’s not that dissimilar (some were more, some less).
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Comparing those jobs to overall median wage in the US isn’t necessarily valid because it mixes several sources, especially when we’re talking about issues of gender it’s important to separate the two (median wage for women is around 10k less IIRC), and then you have to separate out the jobs I’m talking about (because they would skew any comparison).
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It’s overly simplistic to just look at the top ten, if you include the next 25 from the article you’ll see they are also male dominated professions.
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I wasn’t trying to explain the totality of the wage gap from this specific example (factors like hourly vs. yearly earnings and maternity issues have a much larger impact, discrimination is also undoubtedly a factor - probably in certain professions more than others, and less so than ever before, there are other factors as well). I was just suggesting that it was one aspect of it, I made no attempt to even quantify what percentage it was.
But even if my sums were wrong and after taking everything into account these more dangerous male dominated professions were as well paid (or less even) than the safer female dominated professions (and I don’t think they are, but there are a lot of variables, so it’s possible - after more reading on the issue the experts don’t seem to agree so I’m willing to remain agnostic on the issue), the main point was about the danger faced in these professions and how a sexist disparity materially benefits the health and wellbeing of women (what I was specifically asked to provide an example of).
