Women with post-secondary degrees tend to make more, not less, pay than men. Pay tends to be skewed in two ways...the skilled trades make more, and those with advanced degrees make more. Women are underrepresented in the skilled trades, true (and I think more women should consider those fields because they can do well in many of them...as electricians, for example, where women's hands are smaller and more dexterous than those of their male peers and where brute force isn't a requirement of the job), but they are OVERrepresented in positions requiring a degree.

And for women under age 35 with a degree, they SIGNIFCANTLY out-earn their male peers. So, I tend to believe that these studies which purport that women earn less tend to be a pretty skewed reading of the stats in regards to male/female earnings. Educated women who are young out-earn their male peers.

End of story.

So, what's the moral for women in all this? The education is the most crucial aspect of female pay equity.

Just speaking for myself, I've always out-earned my male peers.

Catz

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Job 13:5 (New International Version)
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.