> But while the nature, significance and causes of the gender pay gap are often debated, that it exists is well-attested Whites are killed by police more than

> But while the nature, significance and causes of the gender pay gap are often debated, that it exists is well-attested Whites are killed by police more than blacks--we could talk breathlessly about the "racial police killing gap", but it's utterly meaningless without accounting for other things (differences in number of people, crime rates, etc between the black and white populations). We could say the gap is "well-attested" but that confers an air of credibility that's undeserved. Similarly, saying that the "wage gap is well-attested" is silly because the gap itself is meaningless. It's far more clear and less controversial to say "men and women are drawn toward different fields which pay differently" (especially considering men work longer, less-flexible hours). When you account for this and a couple of other obvious factors, the gender pay gap disappears into the error margins. Maybe this is tangential ideological pedantry, but it seems worth clarifying to me.