The very notion of a “wage gap” is nonsense, economically. Labor is a factor of production like iron or wheat. Employers bid for labor according to supply and demand. They always want to hire the cheapest labor that can do the job. If any type of labor, say women, was less costly for the same value, then employers would preferably hire women until their wages are bid up to the level of men. That’s why a “wage gap” in the fashion the feminists envision it can’t actually exist in a market economy. Any employer who wants to discriminate would have to choose to hire more expensive labor at the cost of his bottom line. Even if he was willing to pay the price - and aren’t we told that they’re too greedy and selfish for that? - he would put himself at a competitive disadvantage and eventually lose out to employers who don’t discriminate. The only way discrimination can exist is if the government stifles competition or mandates equal wages, then discrimination is free. Socialism subsidizes discrimination!
But what about statistics that say that women only make x cents for every Dollar men make? Well, partly they’re just made up by angry feminists. Secondly, they compare groups that just aren’t comparable. Women tend to choose different careers than men. Men like engineering, women like social tasks. Obviously different jobs pay differently. So then let’s correct for that, let’s compare what they make for “the same job”. Doesn’t work either, because men tend to work longer hours. Then let’s correct for that too! Nope, there are differences in age, experience and training. Let’s correct for that too… whoops, our wage gap is gone. In fact, women are already ahead of men in a lot of prestigious fields once you correct for a few legitimate differences. For example in college. But it’s not like feminists care about that kind of inequality. It’s only a problem when it’s the other way around. Feminists don’t care about equality, that’s just an argument to get more state-enforced special privileges for their class.