Delivering mail and collecting duties and taxes !!
I think the answer is <span>the gap in pay between men and women persists in most industries.
The early years did accept the women in the labor force but there was a difference between their salaries. Men tend to have higher salaries than women before,
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I believe the reason why the western world had formed the NATO alliance was because it served the purpose of protecting westwern europe against the influence of the Russian Iron Curtain. It was a pact that brought all of the US's allies together into one alliance to protect against Russia and any other countries that were supporting communism at the time.