[ironeagle]

I have to agree with Bacon on this as much as I hate saying it women tend to accept jobs that pay less far more often than men do. However there are also many female dominated professions which lack good representaion and need unions to help them achieve better pay and benefits. An example is the child care industry that finaly unionized, which is partly why child care is so unaffordable to women with low paying jobs, because the child care givers are making a living wage, which sometimes equals to, or is more than, the income of the mother's job. The Cosmetology industry is a field that could use unionization all over the country. We pay alot of money for school, and the cost of license fees, tools and required contiunued education makes it difficult for most Cosmetologists, and similar licensed practitioners to keep up, because of low wages, lack of benefits, and lack of affordable insurance. Additionaly professionals in these fields also lack good protections and representation against employers who will fire new workers just because they don't join their clique, do not want to gossip, do not design like the owner or manager, or because they don't like the way you tie your shoes. I find that many female oriented or dominated professions are this way. I have watched a vast majority of my former co-students and professionals who have quit the field to persue other professions because they can't make enough money to support their families.