Fenofibrate is used with a low-fat diet and sometimes with other medications to reduce the amounts of fatty substances such as cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood and to increase the amount of HDL (high-density lipoprotein; a type of fatty substance that decreases the risk of heart disease) in the blood.
Direct discrimination. 1  Some women are paid less than men for doing the same job. 2  This factor only explains a small part of the gender pay gap, due to the effectiveness of the European Union and national legislation. The gender pay gap is also reinforced by the segregation in the labour market. 2  Women and men still tend to work in different jobs. 3  On the one hand, women and men often predominate in different sectors. 4  On the other hand, within the same sector or company women predominate in lower valued and lower paid occupations.
While the gender wage gap appears to be disappearing in the general work force, the exact opposite is happening in the health care sector: New research in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that the gender pay gap among doctors, dentists and other health care workers has grown over the past decade.