"Several" is doing some very heavy lifting here. According to the paper cited, it's 22 out of 250 metro areas (or 9%). Another way to put this is that in the v

"Several" is doing some very heavy lifting here. According to the paper cited, it's 22 out of 250 metro areas (or 9%). Another way to put this is that in the vast majority of metro areas, young women DO NOT earn more than young men. Even when you look at the areas where young women do outearn young men, it is not by a lot. For example, in the NYC area, young women earn 102% of what young men do. To my ear, that's parity.