Isn't that by choice? (I've only read a mere handful or so of gender studies/feminist work, and it's been almost 10 years now, so this is really more me being curious than me trying to debate - so anyone please correct me where I'm wrong).
The studies always seem to go back and forth, but the last one I read stated that women as a whole made ~70% of what men make, but within a given profession and with all else being equal, the pay tended to almost equal out. Is that still how it's reported?
My impression was that women have the choice and opportunity to become engineers and computer scientists but they don't choose to as often as men. My univeristy (big engineering/comp sci/architecture university) had a 4:1 male:female ratio. They were desperate to get more women to apply; they hated the appearance of that ratio, the guys hated it (naturally), and so they had so many programs and efforts to seek out female applicants. The year after I left they were back down to a 5:1 ratio, which is still up from the 8:1 in the early 90s. I literally had classes with one female student. My Computer Science I. lecture hall class of about ~260 students had (by my count one day)
5 female students in the room!
I think the money for women is there, they just have to choose to pursue the fields that offer it.
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