New report says young women in San Diego make more money than young men

By: WE Staff | Wednesday, 30 March 2022

Pew Research Center’s report says that in nearly two dozen cities women make more money than young men, including San Diego.

"If you look at areas where women outpace men, it’s the big growth areas like New York, Los Angeles you got high tech, you got finance, and those require high levels of education," said Alan Gin, who is a professor of Business at University of San Diego.

Gin says the reason women under 30 are making more money than men, is simply because of education. 

"Women are attending college at greater rates than men, they’re getting education and good jobs,” said Gin.

"Women have always been progressing and things will always get better whether that be policy, cultural changes so on and so forth," said Alexandra Rene Poelstra, who is an entrepreneur and sits on the executive board of the Carlsbad chamber of commerce.

"Women are having children later, if at all, less children, we’re spending more time in education and we’re spending more time in the work force," said Poelstra.

"We’re seeing these younger generations say, ‘nope that’s not what I want’ and I’m not going to do it,” said Poelstra. “They’re continuing to push for what they want and push aside what they don’t and that’s continuing to close the gender pay gap."