Higher educational attainment did not , however , help close the income gap between the genders as the life-time earnings for a male with a professional degree were roughly forty percent -LRB- NUMBER@1 % -RRB- higher than those of a female with a professional degree .

Higher educational attainment did not , however , help close the income gap between the genders as the life-time earnings for a male with a professionals degree were roughly forty percent -LRB- NUMBER@1 % -RRB- higher than those of a female with a professionals degree .
