In my limited exoerience women were paid exactly the same for the same work. That trash truck diesnt have a woman because she cant wrestle the cans. In my old job we had 2 lesbians, one would not accept help, the other would. I told both to get help with heavy jobs, and pointed out that i as a smaller statured man had to get a big guy to lean on a wrench at times to help me. That brings the other thing into playz i was paid more for my knowledge-- i knew what the wrench did