It's certainly a compelling thesis. You'll also want to put your education to use immediately. You want to take advantage of the pipelines for fresh graduates,

It's certainly a compelling thesis. You'll also want to put your education to use immediately. You want to take advantage of the pipelines for fresh graduates, and to be perceived as a youth when competing for entry-level jobs. It's hard enough to get that first job when you're fresh out. It could be even harder when you've spent the ages of 22-30 getting your kids born and ready to spend their days in school, so you're trying to score your first job in your late 20s or early 30s. It may be that the education mechanism by itself suffices to explain it, even without that factor. I wish it were possible to factor out that youth bias. We present women with such a terrible choice: their prime years for preparing for work are the same as their prime years for starting their family.