[sleepysysadmin]

I think you misunderstand the purpose behind those pushing the gender wage gap narrative. Virtually everyone realizes the reality of why the gender wage gap exists and how it's not because of harassment, discouragement, discrimination, or environmental biases. That includes the people who are pushing the narrative. They aren't stupid, they know they are wrong.

Instead they have a different goal. They are collectivists. Their goal is that everyone gets paid exactly the same regardless of what job they do. They want a university professor to be paid the same as an elementary teacher.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304671

I'm not even joking.

Their goal is Marxism/Communism/Socialism. You can't argue with them that a professor should be paid more because of education and skills; because they dont consider those as reasons to be paid more or less.