>In summary: there is no wage gap when you compare apples to apples. If you are talking about women's career choices, then by all means encourage your daughter

>In summary: there is no wage gap when you compare apples to apples. If you are talking about women's career choices, then by all means encourage your daughter to be a professional in a high paying sector, as opposed to the low-paying education and health care sectors. WTF? I agree with the general idea here of encouraging your kids to pursue more lucrative fields where feasible, but where'd you get the idea that healthcare is low-paying? Surgeons make a fortune, other doctors generally do very well (there are some exceptions, and GPs do the worst on average but still are not "low paid" by any means), and even nursing is a very solid decent-paying profession. But yeah, education really sucks as a career choice, both in pre-college and in college too these days. >Or you could encourage her to join the lucrative fields of logging, piloting, Piloting is a terrible career. The pay is generally horrible and the conditions dangerous until you get to the "big leagues". There's way more people who dream of flying aircraft for a living than there are places to employ them at good wages. Last I heard, a copilot for a big place like Fedex gets paid $18k. On top of all that, the training costs are enormous, because you're paying for private tutoring and high fuel/maintenance costs. It used to be possible to get aviation loans 10 years ago during the bubble, but it's not any more because the field collapsed and there's a glut of pilots.