[omonra]

"'Gender equality' doesn't mean that everyone should be 'the same' but rather that everyone should have equal rights. Am I not getting this?"

You're so 10 years behind the ball. Equality now means equality of results.

Since everybody [important] knows that women have the same skills & work the same jobs & the same hours as men, their being paid less is only result of misogyny & sexism on part of their employers.