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Why do Women Make Less Compared to Men?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2013 reported that women made approximately $706 a week whereas men made approximately $860 a week.
The top paying fields are:
Medicine
STEM


However only 24% of people in STEM are female, and about 40% of people in medicine. The reason women don’t make more compared to today’s calculations is that they don’t participate in high-paying fields.
Why does this happen?
Because women are discouraged from majoring in such fields during college. They also usually don’t have a lot of experience in high school of high-level math and science which makes college-level math and science very hard for them.


The average starting salary in STEM is $65000/year
The average starting salary in medicine is $85000/year
Fields in which most women are employed and average starting salaries
Elementary/ middle school teachers - $36000/year
Secretaries and Administrative assistants - $37000/year
A good article to read on the problem of lack of women in STEM is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/why-are-there-still-so-few-women-in-science.html?mcubz=3

Some websites from which I drew some answers:
https://phys.org/news/2016-10-stem-fields-women.html
https://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/10/29/the-good-and-bad-statistics-on-women-in-medicine/


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