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Not really, since that's just the same ill-defined "Earnings Gap" nonsense constantly peddled as a "wage gap" for decades. As this article from Forbes and the sources inside explain, and has been well-known for a decade at this point, "When comparing two people in the same profession, with the same seniority, working the same number of hours, and so forth, women earn $0.98 for every dollar that a man earns."
Their source for that number has since updated that number to $0.99 for every dollar a man earns for the same work.
So, unless you think that women should be paid significantly more than men for the same work (which wouldn't surprise me, given your other comments in this thread), Rejoice! for the "wage gap" is no more!
It should be dollar for dollar, don't act like I have implied anything more. I'm done with this, as you missed my original point: Giving everyone more doesn't fix inequality.