Good report. Please keep digging deeper.
Other studies have shown that women under 28 are on average earning MORE than their male peers for the very reasons sited here.
One interesting study found that the overall average income for women STEM graduates is still lower than men because most schools still encourage women students into teaching professions and men into industry.
Schools do not pay young teachers as well as industry yet industry is called sexist because of the pay gap. No wants to blame the sexist STEM school curriculum stuck in the 19th century where only women are encouraged to go into teaching.