The dominant news story has always been the story women earn 80 percent less than men, but that was difficult to reconcile compared to what I was seeing in my work life. This article backed up some of those points.
If you are looking for hard data to back up what I experienced, the article posted here is a perfect source.
Funny: reading HN comments I increasingly get the feeling a lot of folks aren't correctly reading or comprehending what's been written. Whether it's deliberate to support a strawman or a result of reading too quickly or something else I don't know but I often read a response and notice "hang on, that's really NOT what OP was saying...".
Especially when people share personal observations on a study that includes data, yet people cry "small sample size!".
Of course its a small sample size, it's a personal experience of one.
I don't know what comment you read, but the comment I read said nothing remotely close to this. If you want to paraphrase what they said, it'd be more like "the very small sample of women I was exposed to in a small amount of time at one single professional workplace were better prepared for the job than the very small sample of men I was exposed to in a small amount of time at one single professional workplace".
That says absolutely nothing about men and women in general, no matter how much baseless controversy you want to drum up.