“In nearly every high-paying major for women, men with that major earn still more. And men also outnumber women in those fields, usually by quite a bit. There's one exception where the wage gap goes the other way: information sciences. Women are relatively rare (only 25 percent of the profession), but their typical earnings are higher than the typical earnings for men by $10,000.
This matters, because it means that charts that don't break out salaries by gender can be misleading. Women just looking at the highest-earning majors wouldn't see information sciences or computer science on the list — and could miss out on a financially rewarding career as a result.
This also means that judging colleges based on what their graduates earn, an idea that's increasingly popular, can be misleading. You could end up rewarding not just colleges with a lot of engineers or scientists, but colleges that enroll a disproportionate number of white men.”
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