>I don't know what's up with all the conspiratorial rejection of these basic stats. That's an easy one. There is a massive political movement for solving the w

>I don't know what's up with all the conspiratorial rejection of these basic stats. That's an easy one. There is a massive political movement for solving the wage gap; and that political movement is overwhelming dominated by people who insist highly misleading statistics, and call out anyone who questions those statistics as sexist. This is why you don't want to lie in politics. Once people catch on, they won't believe the kernel of truth you were basing the lie on; they'll just assume your still lieing (which is objectivly closer to the truth than believing the original claims being made).