6 jobs with most equal pay for men and women

A CNNMoney analysis of Census data shows these jobs -- which have roughly the same amount of men and women workers -- have little disparity in salaries.

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Pharmacists

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Pharmacist is the most equal high-wage job.

Women made up just over 50% of full-time pharmacists in 2011, marking a dramatic change over the past 50 years. In 1960, only 8% of the pharmacists were women.

Harvard economists attribute the rise to chain stores, which replaced the old business model of small mom-and-pop pharmacy shops.

Along with the rise of big drug stores, women could enter the job without the added burden of running a business too. Meanwhile, the large corporate structure allowed for more flexibility in scheduling hours.

Women pharmacists earned a median salary of $111,000 in 2011, 92 cents to the dollar of male pharmacists. The gap can be explained by men working longer hours.

In the future, women are likely to represent a larger majority in the field. They already account for more than 65% of new pharmacy grads.

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Source: American Community Survey 2011. We included occupations with at least 20,000 full-time workers, where women make a median annual salary that's equal to at least 90% of a man's full-time salary. We only included fields where women don't outnumber men, and men don't outnumber women, by more than 20%.

By Annalyn Kurtz @AnnalynKurtz - Last updated February 11 2013 08:34 AM ET

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