Do you have a source for that claim? From what I’ve understood the gap shrinks to somehing like 4-8%, not that it goes away entirely. I would like studies if it goes away entirely (because I haven’t seen such a study).

The trick here is how to match men with women in order to make the comparison.

Do we group by job position, skill level, education, experience? And what is "same experience"? In tech, it is usually counted in years, regardless on how many hours you work during the year. Compare to airline pilots where the metric is flight hours. The same kind questions can be asked for all other points. Even the wage can be tweaked. Is it by year? working day? hour? What about pauses, overtime, work at home, commute time, ...

By carefully choosing the metrics, we can say whatever we want.

Indeed if you control for these there’s no gap in the outcome variable (pay) but there is a huge gap in the n variable (number of women).

The question to ask then is why does that happen? Are the reasons for that valid? Are equal opportunities available? Do we even want equal opportunities as a society or an individual?

>The question to ask then is why does that happen?

Because women, more typically than men, raise children as their full time job.

Are women not better equipped to raise children than men? Clearly yes.

How so?

Women are naturally equipped with the anatomy to feed offspring...

Like bottles, formula and money?