It does translate into pay afterwards.
Young, single, college-educated women are outearning their male peers.
FALSE. I assume this is another attempt by you to misrepresent
this story that conservatives dishonesty touted as evidence against anti-female gender bias, with headlines like
"Young Women's Pay Exceeds Male Peers"
But the data only shows that if you
ignore education, then young, single, childless females in many major cities make more than same age males in those cities. But these males are not their "peers", because they have less education.
The greater pay for young women in those cities is due to them being more likely to have a college degree than same age males. And this only holds in major cities where male dominated high paying blue collar jobs have been lost. In rural areas, young women still make less than young men, despite having more education.
And young single females everywhere, including major cities earn less than same age males with the same level of education, experience, and hours worked in most professions.
IOW, women go to college and have the motivation to graduate more than men, because they need to try and make up for their lower pay due to their gender. Having more education than a man if about the only way they can avoid earning less. Then there is the fact that some males do not attend college because their father or a friend of their father offers them a good paying job out of high school. Such opportunities are offered far less to daughters, even when clearly more competent and mature than their brothers.