Re: From afar
Because it's not normally as simple as 'if women; pay *0.8'
Your senior guys hired in the 80s are men, your new junior recruits are 50:50
Your senior woman engineers have been in the company since the 80s getting the same 2% raises as the men - but then you hired a bunch of men from Microsoft and paid them silicon valley wages.
Your male staff have switched job 5x as often, getting a 20% bump each time. Your salary is based on what you were making at the previous job.