[projectorlochsa]

Women are just less aggressive when negotiating and are more agreeable than men. It's statistics and it's obviously biological.

Women also feel satisfied with compensation at one moment and have no desire to increase their working hours/responsibilities for a meager (if any) improvement in their quality of life (that would appear with higher salary). Men on the other hand, seem to have more of those crazy individuals that waste enormous hours and overachieve despite the meager improvement in quality of life, if we ignore the bragging rights it gives them. Also statistics, and obviously biology.

Not to mention the fact that accomplished women most often have older and more accomplished men as partners, which also removes an incentive for them to make more money.

It is also the case that women do accept part-time work positions (which makes them earn less) more than men.

Is it the patriarchy? Is it Google?

I'm pretty sure it's just the way it is.

[fdsfsafasfdas]

What do you mean by "obviously biological"?

[ccanassa]

Higher levels of testosterone I guess.

[tscs37]

There are inherent differences between men and women, not only in biology but also in the brain/psychology.

In general, Men have a higher diversity in IQ and Risk Taking.

The TL;DR is that Men will have a tendency to take higher risks than women, which is then rewarded more, if it succeeds, however, it is punished more severely when one fails. Punishment generally involved poverty and unemployment.

This doesn't mean women cannot take risks, just that they have a lesser inclination to.

Negotiation for a wage on your job is a form of risk taking, in case of failure you can certainly sour your work relationships which ruins your long-term income projection.

[fdsfsafasfdas]

Right, I'm not disputing that there are obvious biological differences. Why do you think that the statistical difference between men and women at intellectual performance (for which I haven't seen numbers, but I'm not disputing) is due entirely to biological differences? It seems foolish to reject environmental influences off-hand.

[tscs37]

I'm not fully rejecting environmental influences, however the biological influences play a much grander role for most of the population than environmental influences.

There will be exceptions but they're not the norm.