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<p>I did - had several job offers January of my senior year in college, graduated and went straight to work. By the time I was 26, I had been promoted several times and was midway through getting my MBA at night. All my friends were in similar circumstances as well - we all had professional jobs coming right out of school and by 26 were clearly on whatever upward path there was.</p>
<p>The cited article is in fact not new news</p>
<p>[Wage</a> gap myth exposed ? by feminists - Society and Culture - AEI](<a href=“http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/race-and-gender/wage-gap-myth-exposed-by-feminists/]Wage”>http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/race-and-gender/wage-gap-myth-exposed-by-feminists/)</p>
<p>It seems to me that one of the factors in the difference between the standard wage gap figures and the controlled figures is the question of which women leave the work force. The bottom line is that the women who are most likely to be high earners are also most likely to meet and marry men with high earning potential, and thus are more likely to have the option of leaving the workforce (or taking less demanding jobs) than their sisters with lower earning potential. Of course, high achieving men are also more likely to meet high achieving women, but they are less likely to leave the workforce.</p>
<p>That so-called wage gap survey is not something I would take too seriously. They never compare people in the same career and standardize for experience, etc. In many area, once you compare men and women in the same field, normalize for experience and job title, there is not a huge gap. In my own field, there is no true gap. The difference is explained because more men are in management versus being a regular staff pharmacist.</p>
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<p>I did. I had a better job then than I have now. </p>
<p>In between then and now, I spent 20 years doing freelance work rather than holding a full-time job while raising a family. It was my choice, and I don’t regret it, but it greatly limited my earning potential when I went back into the full-time workforce.</p>