[pepsi_junkie]

While in college, the study showed, women outperformed men academically, and their grade point averages were higher in every college major.

This seems unlikely to me. In every major, women have higher grades than men? Engineering? Mathematics? This would refute any number of studies that show, in general, better performance of men in math and fields with heavy dependance on spatial relationships.

[pierrem15]

This study is meaningless without comparing job types.

If you do the comparison within a given field and adjust for experience missed due to child-rearing, I would guess the disparity disappears.

What they're saying is that women who do easy office work should be paid as much as union construction workers or engineers.

Please cue the Internationale.

[lepton]

This seems unlikely to me. In every major, women have higher grades than men? Engineering? Mathematics? This would refute any number of studies that show, in general, better performance of men in math and fields with heavy dependance on spatial relationships.

It's been shown previously that there is strong self-segregation even within majors. In social sciences, men tend towards the mathematics-heavy portions, and women towards the more subjective...and so it goes in major after major. A major is still a rather wide area.

[N3WBI3]

It would not surprise me, the Women who tend to go into engineering are very heady. In my Engineering Classes of 200 people there were less than 5 women and they were *very* smart grade wise. A couple were great in every respect but some were just book smart and fell apart in an interview.

So we take the very, very talented women who want to be engineers and throw them in with a vast cross section of men some very bright others not so much. Whats the average going to be?