This might be the most sexist, misguided comment I've ever received.
As an accountant with a Master's degree who works with highly educated women, I really don't know what your response is even about. More women than men are currently enrolled in college. Women HAVE to get well paying jobs when they decide to remain single (or become single because their husband isn't pulling his weight).
Many women are bringing home equal or better pay than their partners but still carrying the full load of the household.
The gender gap is also related to women making less for the SAME jobs as men. It's like when I worked for a company processing mortgages and I was making $13/hr., as were all of my female coworkers, only to discover our male counterpart working the SAME job was making $15/hr.
In the past women were only allowed to do certain jobs - and therefore they were paid minimally because women were considered less than - jobs like teaching, nursing, etc. So it's taking time for women to find their way into the jobs that were stereotypically "men's work", but we're doing it and we're excelling. And the fact that teaching and nursing are paid less, even though they are fundamental to our society is a reflection of the fact that they were considered women's work, not because of their inherent difficulty.
And I love how men believe they are more logical/less emotional than women - but the truth is you just don't regard anger as an emotion. When we take anger into account, men are WAY more emotional than women.
You need to understand that the problem with the mentality that BOTH men and women accepting that the other has valid complaints is the power dynamic that has been in force for millennia. Men have held power over women. Women are only just now winning our freedom from the oppressive systems. We don't really care what your grievances are because you've abused the power you've held over us.
It's not that different than when slaves got their own freedom. And initially they weren't all that free since no one would hire them, nor did they have the basic rights of white men. Would you say the black man was being unreasonable because he wouldn't sit down with the white man and discuss the white man's grievances about him? That's ridiculous, right? Because the black man was literally a slave. So why should he care what the white man's experience was? The answer is he shouldn't.
Women have been treated as free domestic, baby-making labor for millennia. And it hasn't been very long that we've been ALLOWED to be fully financially independent.
Women won the right to apply for and hold a mortgage without a male cosigner in 1974.
1974. Let that sink in. 50 years ago. Probably within your lifetime (I'm assuming you're older based on your boomer mentality).
The amount of clueless your comment indicates is troubling at best.