[africanboy]

The problem is also how the issue is depicted.

For example Italy is highly unionised so there can't be a gender pay gap in jobs regulated by a national contract (most of them are)

There is however a gender pay gap between men and women, in general, of a couple thousands euros/year (it kept going down in the last few years)

But it's hard to link it to the fact that women are paid less to do the same job, it's based on the fact that historically many women didn't work or had jobs with a lower general pay (for example 90% of the teachers in primary and elementary schools and 80% in high schools are women)

The issue exists but not because men are usually paid more to do the same job.