HARRISBURG (Oct. 27) – Despite some improvement in recent years, women are still concentrated in the state’s lowest-paying occupations, according to a Keystone Research Center study released Friday.

“Compared to 1980, men and women today are still likely to be concentrated in a set of occupations where their coworkers are likely to be of the same sex,” said Mark Price, a KRC labor economist and the primary author of the study, titled “The State of Women in the Pennsylvania Workforce 2008.”

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