Men earn more than women in eight out of the ten most common jobs in Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises. The wage gap ranges from 3.7 percent for administrative employees to 14.3 percent for warehouse workers. There was no change in the average wage gap in these ten positions in 2023 compared to 2022. On average, men earn 6 percent more, the MKB Kennisplatform reported in the run-up to International Women’s Day tomorrow.
The company you work at is potentially an outlier or otherwise not representative.
There’s also far more men in c-level positions for various reasons, which may indicate some confounding factors.
Should also probably consider the glass cliff.
Also maybe consider why you’re emotionally invested in disbelieving there’s pay inequality via gender.
I’m more concerned with problems presented as some kind of “unsolvable” bias. If you have 1.4million payslips that are showing clear systemic discrimination based on sex surely that is a huge class-action lawsuit right? Wouldn’t hundreds of thousands of workers being underpaid be a great avenue for direct action that would economically elevate them and provide some succor in an unjust world?
Show the data. Show the methodology. Give it to Netherlands or EU equivalent of the ACLU, let’s solve some problems!