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Despite pay gaps between the sexes, women were consistently found to evaluate their job and pay as more positive than men. In social psychology, this is known as “paradox of the contented female worker”. Can this paradox still be found today and does it vary between occupational contexts? Ole Brüggemann and Thomas Hinz studied 27 European countries and find that women nowadays perceive their lower earnings as unfair and that this was more pronounced in female-dominated and gender unequal occupations.

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