It is a question of choice that every woman should make alone: do I want to be a house wife? Do I want to be a professional and earn the money? What is my choice – a brilliant career and no family or a less successful career but I want to have children as well?
That's the part I see as unfair. The men don't have to choose. They can have a family AND a career because (a) they are paid more, and can hire help, and (b) they aren't expected to put the same amount of time in at home [as a woman would], especially if they play their cards right and get a non-demanding wife. Whereas the women are forced to make that choice.
Through school I have noticed that the women who are in science are quite bright, brighter than the average of the men in their class. In other words, the "more average" women (who may still be very smart but not brilliant) are somehow steered away from science, while no one steers the "more average" men away.
