From what I've heard, talking to young women, the crunch comes when they start a family. It's very difficult to juggle. A lot of them want to get ahead because it's a profession and a career. If they take time off, that really disadvantages them in the long run and they lose their career path.
I really believe that pay equity is important. I hear from young women that, on questioning their peers, they find that X, X, and X have been hired at the same time for the same job for a different salary. I feel that is unconscionable. If they're doing the same job, they should be having the same salary. That finding rather surprised me.
Evidence suggests that while stereotypes exist, no evidence exists that women are in fact inferior to men in these spheres. It's just the idea that they may be inferior. And that is a big, big battle for women, because they have to prove that they're as good and they have to prove it every time they go through a new job or go that route.
Child care and pay equity are very important. The other thing I heard, particularly in the trades, is there's a lot of inappropriate innuendo and joshing and outright abuse that goes on in the workplace--not so much in the professions, but I heard it goes on a lot in the trades. That should be more readily reportable and totally unacceptable, because women should not have to be harassed just because they're earning a salary.