Quote Originally Posted by KrayZ33 View Post
That whole gender-pay-gap discussion doesn't make sense anyway. The easiest argument would be that companies would never pay more than necessary if they get the same work and traits for less. Capitalism doesn't care about gender, it's all about the money.
I used that "companies never pay more than necessary" as a counter-argument in high school when a female student gave a presentation about equality and the gender gap. Somehow my argument wasn't too well received, no matter how neutrally I put it. Already back then there were people who couldn't handle any feedback that didn't directly support their simplistic views.

Still, like I said in my earlier post, the pay gap is easier to solve when the job title is same, and a lot has been solved already there. However, it's not so easy when you look at the average salary of all the women and men in the whole working population of the country. Then it's usually more evident that men are more often in better paying jobs, women in jobs with a lower salary, or men earn more due to different kinds of extras, like working more overtime. At least over here, but the situation could be totally different in other countries. This is quite an ambiguous issue. In the first place it's difficult to see what should be done about it, how, and where exactly. It would be impossible to have every profession have even roughly 50% men, 50% women, and then even all the variables, like women staying longer at home to look after small children.