Re: "We need to promote women disproportionately, pay them equally or better..."
If you take the raw stats, women get paid less than men.
The reason is because women tend to want to take breaks in their careers to have children. The only solution is obvious - ban women from taking time off work to look after kids.
As that's not something anybody wants, lets stop pretending that women are paid less than men.
Actually, pre-career-break women earn more than their male counterparts.