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Men work more overtime, take on more risks, and are more willing to put themselves in danger.
Men get paid more, because they are willing to pay the extra pound of flesh it demands, because they have a bit more flesh to offer. Men have higher average stamina, physical strength, and physical resilience.
I won't necessarily say that's a good thing, but it's a fact. There's a reason all the dangerous jobs are male dominated, but simultaneously men die on the job or get severely maimed substantially more.
Interestingly enough if you look at a woman dominated industry that is extremely dangerous abd demands a pound of flesh (like prostitution) suddenly the gender gap flips heavily the other way.
As I always say, you don't see people talking about gender disparity of garbage truck drivers and other areas of the sanitation industry, even though there's a lot of disparity over there.
Why aren't people complaining about the lack of women in the sanitation industry? Weird, huh?
The reality is that the patriarchy also oppresses most men who arent super rich white men (and they still have weird oppressive restrictions placed on them) and in the following case:
Liberal feminism and cultural feminism make for shitty reactionary feminism that still enforces rape culture. You can't replace class analysis that includes analysis of gendered oppression with "men are oppressors and women are oppressed"
You might like "The Will to Change" by feminist bell hooks which goes into the devaluing of men amongst other things.