This article fails to persuade readers that women play catch-up at work. It provides nothing to support that viewpoint. Young cohorts of workers simply do not face a “gender gap”.
Women have made many powerful strides in becoming part of the workforce and finally achieving educational equity, but we still have a long way to go as a society. We need to ensure that remaining barriers are removed to ensure that more women can pursue their dreams in many more professions: everywhere from programmers to boilermakers, loggers, miners, deep sea fishers, roofers, and more professions where equality has not been achieved. Only this positive effort for total equality will go a long way towards reducing the male-female wage-gap.
I don't see a movement to boost male enrollment in college. Does this show a shift in the importance of college as a gatekeeper into professions even if unrelated?