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Salary data is the least interesting part of this...

You have been fired 3 times, quit 4 times, demoted once, and twice had contract not renewed. At what point do you conclude that maybe your problem isn't "pay discrimination", but that you've personally had some negative impact in the outcome of your career salaries?

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Maybe trusting OP's lived experience is the best path here. This is the kind of thing that someone is only going to conclude for themselves. So I don't think you're doing anyone any favors by saying/asking something like this.

Never trust anyone's lived experience, ever. Everybody lies, especially to themselves. Everyone's opinion of their own life is a lie they tell themselves to sleep at night. No one is the bad guy of their own experience.

If you can't trust lived experience, what can you trust?

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