In other words, the pay of women relative to men probably stayed constant not in spite of, but because of, the increase in the female labor force. There is another, complementary reason why the gender gap in earnings was stagnating at the same moment that the gender gap in employment was narrowing.
converge. vb. 1. to move or cause to move towards the same point: crowds converged on the city. 2. to meet or cause to meet; join. 3. (intr) (of opinions, effects, etc) to tend towards a common conclusion or result.
Convergent: convergent is collision of two plates. A collision of a less dense continental plate with a more denser oceanic plate collides with a continental plate and the ocean plate goes under the continental plate. This takes a great deal of energy and results in the melting the continental crust, vulcanism occurs.