Women, the Pay Gap, the Pink Collar ghetto, and how?

[#FF0000]

It's been sort of common knowledge for awhile now that women are starting to outperform men in school when it comes to sciences and math, but then end up being extremely under-represented in the field after college.

The explanation for this I keep coming across is that women are funneled into lower paying jobs -- be it the classic "pink collar" sort of job, or the new ones e.g. managing Human Relations and other management positions that don't allow for one to reach the upper echelons of a company. (I went from talking about science to business here, but this is just an example).

But what I never find is an example of how this funneling happens. What is keeping women who excel in maths and science from staying in the field after college? What's going on exactly?

[Lynx]

Which fields are you referring to? Women are succeeding academically by going to college and university, but relatively few choose engineering or computer science.

Women who enter the realm of management encounter a glass ceiling.

[#FF0000]

Which fields are you referring to? Women are succeeding academically by going to college and university, but relatively few choose engineering or computer science.

I'm wondering about exactly this specifically. Why don't women with the skills for it, go into science and engineering fields.

But I'm also curious about the broader problem -- how are women funneled into low paying "pink collar" jobs in general (I don't expect one answer for this either this is a huge question covering a million fields haha)

[Lynx]

Women enter some scientific fields, more than others, if i recall microbiology might be one example.

If 'pink collar' jobs are found in retail, then the sheer number of jobs in the retail sector would lead to many women being employed there. Science and engineering are much smaller sectors in terms of jobs.