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Women have always been paid the same as men for the same work. Why on earth would they not be?

This seems completely unremarkable to me. It's almost as if the female author was looking to find evidence of a gender-based imbalance and couldn't, so decided it must have been "trail-blazing" women. Digging dirt for money is trail-blazing. Right.

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No they have not been and they were not paid the same because of sexist discrimination. Here is one article discussing the historical reduction (not eliminiation) of the gender pay gap: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13524-014-0320-...

As the article argues, the reduction is largely due to a reduction in the "unexplained part", which is usually attributed to discrimination.

You can also find other sources on Wikipedia suggesting your claim is wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male–female_income_disparity_i...

I just don't understand how any thinking person can argue this. If women were actually taking less money for the same output then why would anyone hire a man? Discrimination surely exists, but do you really think that not one single company ever would take advantage of this fact to become successful?

Forget it.

The mob has flagged all dissident comments. It's over.

Indeed.

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