Of course there sometimes is. Where did I say otherwise? What does that have to do with anything I said?

All I said was that by far far and away the biggest cause of the lifetime earnings gap between men and women being the way that it is is because women work fewer hours in their lives, mainly due to pregnancy and childcare.

In the UK at least, younger women actually earn more than their male counterparts due to higher university attendance, typically better grades, and ending up in better jobs.

It’s when they reach an age where it’s typical to take time off to have kids when they fall behind.

Put simply, work fewer hours = get fewer monies.

If governments want to close the gap, and I think they should, they need to make childcare more accessible. It helps both men and women, but moreso women, because they’re the ones who take time off for pregnancy, and they’re typically the ones who take more time off for looking after children after that.