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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I was listening to "The Agenda" podcast, a TVO show by Steve Paikin (the guy that moderated the English federal leaders debate), and they were discussing wage disparity between women and men. One expert said that the primary reason why women are now the majority in university, more likely to have bachelor degrees than men, but still lag in terms of average salary is because of these traditional gender roles. Women typically don't go into the sciences and end up with a Masters in Art History or a BA in Psychology. For example, English BA's go 68% to women, 32% to men. Average salary = $51,000/year. But Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Electrical Engineering are all 82% male. And all have average salaries above $80,000. And this expert on "The Agenda" said that it has nothing to do with women not being able to do the sciences, it's that these traditional gender roles sneak into the lives of both boys and girls and even with the best intentioned parents, the girls get taught that
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Young women in a lot of bigger cities like NY are now making more money than their male counterparts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregion/03women.html
Curious what you think about that, and how you plan to fix this.