Young women now out-earn young men

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in recognition of their better qualifications.

Baby steps but WOO!

wait til the babies come along

If young women earn slightly more or the same as young men it means economically there is equal opportunity so couples can choose whether the woman or man works, stays at home to look after children or whether the division of labour and child care is shared on a more equal basis.

Whether men and women opt to take up the opportunities is a different matter.

There are still a lot of assumptions being made by employers etc bout what is 'likely' to happen so it's not as clear cut as choosing to take opportunities, sadly.

Now what I suspect they have done is take all employed women and men in that age bracket and work out their average hourly rate.

Perhaps if they took all women and men (employed/unemployed and SAHM/SAHD/carers) and then averaged it I suspect they would find a lower rate for women!

There will be many women not working in this age bracket at they are carers or SAHMs - and I have no problem with that at all - however it shows that women are at a financial disadvantage and that this is due to a lack of options for women who want to work (childcare issues/fathers not sharing care) plus a lack of (ant )remuneration for those who are SAHMing.

[ant = any!]

That makes sense though, aren't more women enterin uni than men now?

duh didn't read article