I wish I could say that if all women took this sort of position they would make a lot more. I can't say that for sure, but it is true that even though there's a wage gap in favour of men, some occupations seem to be higher paying.
What we need to tell them, I wish I knew. The two reports that I cite at the end of my presentation, I think, ask themselves those kinds of questions and I think they have more insight into those questions than I do. I also just told you that girls seem to pay less attention to the salary, but despite that I think it would be important to tell them that there are occupations they can have that will give them more financial freedom.
From the point of view of younger girls, that's true in many areas, not only in what they choose as a career, as a field of study, but to counteract those gender biases that have been found in literature. Simply to tell them that they're able to achieve a high rate of success and that they have the skills necessary to do that, I think is important.
I don't mean to suggest that high schools should be separated by gender, but there are studies that show that women who are in women-only high schools tend to “act like men”. By that I want to say that they have the same sort of risk and appetite for competition that women, when they are placed in a two-gender setting, don't seem to show. Women tend to shy away from competition when they're with men, but not when they're only with women. So there is this insight to what's going on, but I think it should be addressed from an early age so that girls develop a taste for those kinds of fields.