4 down votes, yet not one of the down-voters bothered with a rebuttal.

Maybe because there is no rebuttal.  In 2016, HR consulting group Korn Ferry analyzed gender-based income differences for 8.7 million employees across 33 countries.  What began as a pay gap of 18% narrowed to only 1.6% when people working at the same levels in the same company were compared.

Of course, the study will never be mentioned in the Globe because it doesn't fit the "all men bad" narrative the Globe & Mail has adopted.