> > Clearly the way to close the wage gap is to get women to stop having kids.

> That’s one way, the basis of the rest of this comment is then predicated on this being the only way, and as such only has to deal with this.

Did you completely skip over my very next sentence? The one that starts with Of course I'm not serious, ...?

> There is the massive assumption here, “the wage gap is caused by women” without any evidence to back it up.

This on the other hand is a completely fair thing to note. I'd suggest splitting that out into a separate comment, because a discussion of the available evidence is a good thing to have independent of how you may feel about my rhetorical approach in my original comment.