Forget sports , the Olympics is politics and business . <| sep |> Take these two studies , in one it ' s found that women 30 in around cities malke more than their male counterparts by as much as 20 % or more . in another , female applications for STEM jobs recieved 21 favorable results over equally qualified male ones . When people see these typs of things a democrat like clinton makes equal pay opportunity for women through programs policies aimed at giving them a better chance to be a significant part of their campaign . people start to dismiss them as ignoring their problems . The same goes for areas affected negatively by free trade such that happen to be near ones where those same politicians have spent yearsdecades focusing on the problems of that minority area hurt by the same free trade policies while telling the lessminority filled area down the road that they are responsible for what needs to be done in that minority area . It ' s no wonder that the white working class male voters start to roll their eyes shake their headsHere ' s the slightly deflating caveat this reverse gender gap , as it ' s known , applies only to unmarried , childless women under 30 who live in cities . The rest of working women even those of the same age , but who are married or don ' t live in a major metropolitan area are still on the less scenic side of the wage divide . , 8599 , 2015274 , 00 . htmlAt one point we turned to each other while we were coding email responses from faculty across the U . S . and said we hoped that the large preference for women applicants over identically qualified men applicants would slow down because it seemed too large to be believed ! Williams wrote in an email to Inside Higher Ed . It never did slow down , and the final tally was roughly a 2 to 1 preference . So , we were surprised . mixwp 20150414 s t u d y f i n d s s u r p r i s i n g l y t h a t w o m enarefavoredforjobsinstem