What gender gap though?
Some people keep yapping about the gender gap but every article always starts with the disclaimer that this doesn't focus on men and women performing the same job. Obviously because in that case men and women should earn the same, governed by law.
So I keep wondering: what is the problem that men and women earn different salaries when they perform different jobs? Because that is the only underlying reason for this so called "gap".
See, my problem with all this is that the drive behind it is supposedly about equality. So why is it never a problem when, according to these studies of course, women suddenly earn more than men? When that happens there's nothing wrong, yet isn't that simply a display of hypocrisy? Equality should be absolute: it should cover both ends of the spectrum and not simply favor only one end of it.
... that is, if you truly pursue equality of course. And I have some serious doubts about that part.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
