Were there a true wage gap predicated on nothing but the sex of the individual in question, it would benefit virtually every area of society. Naturally, every single one of these goods is contrary to the Progressive soteriology, which is ultimately why it is raked over the coals constantly. Catholics celebrate the Crucifixion at every Mass, after all, so the monthly paean to the wage gap is but an engagement in the same kind of ritual. Don’t you know we’re in a spiritual battle against the invisible forces of sexism and misogyny?

Why would a wage gap exist? The market tends to assign wages on the basis of labor value. Ability is but a component thereof. What an employer is looking at besides mere ability is also how committed the employee will be to work, how convenient he is to employ compared to other employees, how well he will get along with co-workers, and so on. In most professions, women face a natural disadvantage on nearly all of these factors. Women are more likely to quit a job or go part time after working a few years and getting married and/or having children. Women are less likely to actually do their assigned work and more likely to dump it on willing supplicants. Women are less likely to become as skilled at the work over time. Women are more likely to foster divisive politics within the office. It isn’t difficult to understand that given these factors women are frequently employed in unproductive make-work positions so that an employer won’t be subject to an inquisition by the EEOC while simultaneously making sure those engaged in the productive work won’t disrupt its smooth operation. This is without going into the penalties faced by employers who do hire women. Women are more difficult to fire as the threat of a sexual discrimination charge looms. Women pose costs to the office social environment in that sexual harassment charges can occupy an office for weeks, hindering productivity and cohesiveness of the social work environment. Altogether, if a wage gap exists, it is because women tend to be less valuable as employees for all these reasons. If I’m an employer and I’m looking at both a male and female candidate who have demonstrated equal ability, my preference will be for the man for all the reasons pointed out above.

Sans the dogma that women should make as much as men, there would be a wage gap and a lower female participation in the labor force. This is a good thing. There is such a thing as wages which are too high. A gender wage gap which strongly favors men disincentivizes women from pursuing careers, which in turn is their incentive to pursue husbands and a family life. Simultaneously, the lowered labor force participation rate would push wages higher, making it more feasible for a man to be a breadwinner. Instead of the best and brightest women being consigned to the dysgenic infertility of demanding careers, they would be having and raising smart and gifted children, helping to secure the eugenic future of civilization. Likewise, female college attendance would drop, allowing courses to be more rigorous, tuition and loan rates to fall, scarce postgraduate educational resources could be reserved for men more likely to have a higher labor value, rates of promiscuity on campuses would fall, and women’s studies wouldn’t have to exist to prop up the academic attainment of women who can’t cut it in STEM or even rigorous humanities majors. Women would have fewer delusions about their worth as marriage material, making them more attractive to men; men could more easily get a stable, family supporting career, increasing their own attractiveness to women as well. Rates of divorce would fall, which by extension means rates of child abuse would also fall. Equal pay makes everything worse for practically everyone in society.

A true, unregulated gender wage gap is not a cure-all panacea, but it would be a step towards restoring the family and the indispensable benefits it provides to society. Granted, it is only orthodox to prefer that women be independent (lonely), empowered (subsidized by men), and sexually liberated (slutty) rather than be engaged in the timeless and noble service of motherhood, but is that a mark against the gender wage gap or our own society?