I’d be tempted to agree. I do know that we had a female working in HR in a training/development function. She got picked up by a tech company in 2002 and was reportedly offered in the $220,000 range.
She was a 26 year-old staff manager at an international company for ~3 years at the time though. Had a business management degree too.
Sounds like a unique individual, an anomaly in market terms.