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"Now this is the kind of news I like to kick off the year with: A recent Pew Research Center study found that young female professionals are currently earning 93 percent of what males in the same age group make and women&amp;#x27;s overall hourly wages are 84 percent of those of men. Granted, I wish that this number were 100 percent&amp;amp;#8212;but I can&amp;#x27;t ignore huge strides either. In 1980, women were making only 64 cents for every dollar men made. The good news gets better. Millennials are better educated than their mothers and grandmothers were&amp;amp;#8212;and better educated than the guys they&amp;#x27;re competing against for jobs too. Thirty-eight percent of young women have earned an undergraduate degree versus just 31 percent of men. Of course, the results aren&amp;#x27;t all rosy. Young women looking ahead are still seeing roadblocks to their future success, and it&amp;#x27;s not hard to see why. The study reveals that 51 percent of mothers of children under the age of 18 say being a working parent has made job advancement more difficult. For a little bit of (beyond annoying) perspective, only 16 percent of men in the same group felt that way. Gen-Y women who haven&amp;#x27;t had children yet are already seeing this and making the connection that motherhood will have a negative impact on their careers. Per the study, 63 percent of young women 18 to 32 think that having children will make advancing their careers more difficult. &amp;quot;Studies have shown for over a decade that what is really killing women economically is motherhood,&amp;quot; Joan Williams, professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law told the Pew Center. To break it down, employers are worried if they invest time and money in a candidate she will leave after having a child and stay at home. In 2013, this is still an issue. It&amp;#x27;s not always about the paycheck though. The findings show that women who had career interruptions to care for a child or an ill parent overwhelmingly said they&amp;#x27;re glad they took the family time. Now, we&amp;#x27;d love to get to a place where we don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about jeopardizing our careers to do so."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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