Today in the Washington Post, Debora Spar, president of Barnard College, discusses why women are still earning on average 18 percent less than their male counterparts after graduating college.
Spar believes that the inequality is caused by the fact that "the university experience is still an unequal one" and "our higher-education system, for better and for worse, is not designed to focus on the economic consequences of our students’ years on campus."
Spar states another source of inequality stems from women's tendencies to "enroll in different kinds of classes, tend to major in less rigorous subjects, and generally head off with less ambitious plans."
