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/^t/In connection with the problem of women's discrimination at work it is worth pointing out some data. As the national surveys announce women still earn only 70% of male wages. In finance, women make up almost half the employees and earn in total only half male wages. The caring, cleaning, catering professions are underpaid partly because they are seen as less skilled than "male" jobs. The law discriminates against part-timers: they have to work for more than twice as long as full timers to earn protection from unfair dismissal and have far fewer employment rights. Since the majority of part-timers are women the law is just sanctioning discrimination. Besides only 3% of university professors, 8% of business managers and 15% of medical consultants are women.