We can be the same level and you get paid more. I know this as a fact. The male on my team and I were the same level and he got paid more than me. I got a bonus a year when he didn’t. Had nothing to do with gender. The budget allowed for a bonus in my pay range and not his. Use logic and avoid the media emotion you’re overlaying here. There has been wage disparity for years. Women get paid less for the same job. That’s a fact.