So far that's about right. Women do make different choices. In general, women aren't as hot for careers as are men, for a lot of different reasons.

However this:
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One is female and took a five year career break to raise children, the other is male and did not.
is pretty fucked up, isn't it? Women being punished for raising children. An economic system that treats women like this and punishes them for raising kids should be changed, and changed asap, too.

Because it's a very bad move, in the long run. It might sooner or later keep well educated women from having kids at all. As a matter of fact, that's what's already happening. Which leaves procreation to the idiots/uneducated masses/trailer park folks/immigrants.

Kind of an evolutionary downwards spiral, imho.