New York: Did you know that younger girls earn more than men do in bigger cities of the world? Well so says a recent census data analysis conducted in New York.

This shift in wages started occuring in 2000 and has continued, thereby widening the wage gap even more in recent years.

According to experts, a major reason is that women have been graduating from college in larger numbers  than men, and many of those educated women seem to be gravitating towards urban cities.

Also, many of those women are not marrying right after college, leaving them freer to focus on building careers, experts say.

Big cities attract more educated women because many jobs in the cities pay higher salaries than similar ones elsewhere in the country.

According to the experts, well-educated women were migrating to urban centres where there are diverse professional opportunities and less gender discrimination than in smaller cities and suburbs.

However, this trend is in no way reflective of whether women across all age groups will gradually move further. Infact, typically women have fallen behind men in earnings as they get older. This is so because some women stop working altogether, or work part time or encounter glass ceiling in promotions.