The problem I see is that businesses are not agnostic to the lifestyle choices of their employees. The parent comment said: "As long as they are offer equal p

The problem I see is that businesses are not agnostic to the lifestyle choices of their employees. The parent comment said: "As long as they are offer equal pay for equal work they should be largely agnostic to the lifestyles choices of their employees" But that's the rub: in many jobs you can actually accomplish more by working long hours, and often those are exactly the jobs that carry prestige and high salaries (banking, surgery, etc.) So employers can't be agnostic with respect to that particular lifestyle choice and still offer equal pay for equal work. If women are trading off work hours for free time, what people are really asking for is increased pay for women and decreased pay for men, based on faulty understanding of the marginal value of free time.