one of the big causes of the gender gap in the united states is that we of all the countries, wealthy countries, have the greatest gap between low-wage jobs and high-wage jobs. and low-wage jobs, you can have two people in the family working a low-wage job and they still won't earn enough to keep them and their kids out of poverty, so we have to do something about establishing a livable wage floor. we have to get better work family policies. we also have to make better arrangements for kids. this is a world where education is so important, and it turns out that preschool and child care are very important to get a child ready for kindergarten. that affects the way they live for the rest of their lives and whether they are going to be able to get good jobs, whether they'll go to college or drop out of college and be saddled with debt and without a job. so we have to invest in that sort of thing, too, as well as be models for young women to tell them, don't count on, you know, being rescued by a prince