My guess is that it ultimately does boil down to either having a performance-based pay or equal pay. Ie I don't believe that tech companies pay gap is (mostly)

My guess is that it ultimately does boil down to either having a performance-based pay or equal pay. Ie I don't believe that tech companies pay gap is (mostly) a result of anything but differing contributions by the given individuals. It seems a hard pill to swallow for the PC brigade (as it implies that people are actually different in ability and work ethic) - but that doesn't mean it's not true. If you want your company to succeed (which is probably the most important thing when you are starting out), you'd probably go for the former. If you then get so rich that you care more about social issues at large, you can steer ship towards equality (today's article in the NYT seems to describe that about Salesforce).