It depends on where you are talking about and what the jobs are. As I pointed out there are some countries and employment sectors in the EU that do have persist

It depends on where you are talking about and what the jobs are. As I pointed out there are some countries and employment sectors in the EU that do have persistent pay gaps that can't be explained away by life choices, and so it still makes sense for the EU to work on this issue, no matter how tired you might be of haring about it.