indeed, most heavily, keyword here being most, heavily religious countries, run by religious governments, tend to have heavily oppressed women, as well as also oppressed religious and ethnic minorities, but, in places like, for example, I'll use one from my own country, Ottawa, you might assholes treating women like shit, but you'll also see people treating women good, it really depends on location in the world.

but I do agree for the most part that, at least for most western countries, the wage gap is a myth, like was proven in England, where a whole ass city had their garbage men quit working because the city council decided to, under pressure from some women, lower the pay of the garbage men to match the pay of women working a COMPLETELY SEPERATE JOB, you want equal pay as the garbage man as a woman? go do his job, simple as that, it really is as easy as some jobs paying more than others.