Equal pay is an issue for working women no matter what the job.

Over the past few decades, laws barring discrimination in education and employment have helped give working women opportunities our mothers never had. Today, women work in many different fields, each requiring different skills and experience and paying different wages. But opening doors for working women has not closed the door on pay discrimination.

Equal pay is a problem for all working women.

• For women lawyers, whose median weekly earnings are nearly $206 less than those of male attorneys, and for women in office and administrative support, who receive about $71 a week less than male administrative support;
• For women doctors, whose median earnings are nearly $688 less each week than men's earnings, and for the 90 percent of nurses who are women but who earn $119 less each week than the 10 percent of nurses who are men;
• For women professors, whose median pay is $233 less each week than men's pay, and for women elementary school teachers, who receive about $86 less a week than men;
• For women food service supervisors, who are paid about $122 less each week than men in the same job, and for waitresses, whose weekly earnings are about $67 less than waiters' earnings.

To take a look at the difference between men's and women's weekly wages in different occupations, click on the initial of the job you want to find out about:

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2003," September 2004. Report 978.