"Computer programmer" is such a generic term that I think a 5% gap in average salary is meaningless without presenting it with other data. Web or Desktop? Windo

"Computer programmer" is such a generic term that I think a 5% gap in average salary is meaningless without presenting it with other data. Web or Desktop? Windows, Android or iOS? What languages? Language makes a difference. I know some languages fetch a higher pay. So if, for instance, more women are taking up a lower paid programming skill it is unfair to compare that salary with those of other programmers with a higher paid skill. Geography makes a difference. I'm pretty sure a programmer in Wichita, KS is not making the same as one Mountain View, CA. So if more women are programming in a lower paying region it is unfair to compare with higher paying regions. I understand that we as a whole have a much shorter attention span than in the past. But a single sentence does not make a good argument. I need more info before I'm willing to become outraged by some $3,432/year gap. As I look around my office right now at the programmers here, I'm sure we have a salary gap that big (or bigger)... and we don't even have any women programmers. ;)