In my country, we have the same issue. Historically, women low-wage jobs (retail, secretary, care) paid less than industry. That is equalizing. I think the "wag

In my country, we have the same issue. Historically, women low-wage jobs (retail, secretary, care) paid less than industry. That is equalizing. I think the "wage gap" between men and women (in my country) is ~20% for people aged 45+, and 8% between 30 and 45 (which could be explained by the years "lost" by maternity). For people working, aged 20-30, the wage gap is almost 0 (i think it still favor men, but i could be wrong, also the stats i saw was only about the mean, not the median, and high-class people could certainly skew the data[0]), but if you count NEET and exclude students, it favor women greatly (although men are more likely than women to work without declaring it) [0] I've read an article a few years ago about employement "test" for lawyers (with fake CV), it was pretty clear that both poor men (black, then white) and women from the bourgeoisie (CV with "horse, ballet" as hobbies, high-QOL address and "elite" school) were the most discriminated against. I wonder if that population skew the "wage gap" towards men a lot, as often bourgeois women don't have a well paying job (author, artist, but also volunteering and/or coordinating volonteers, pro-bono head of the family fundation) unlike their men conterpart (your chief manager who is 25 and dropped out of a big uni with a lot of legacy student and paid thrice your rate? His sister coordinate volonteer in a soup kitchen)