Seems fair -- if men are working more hours, then they aren't actually paid more per hour, and might even be paid less. The fact that so few men (and so many wo

Seems fair -- if men are working more hours, then they aren't actually paid more per hour, and might even be paid less. The fact that so few men (and so many women) work as K-12 teachers, who often work a fairly limited number of hours with generous vacation time makes me particularly inclined to side with you here. Of course, there's always the argument that the number of hours doesn't actually directly map to the number of hours you spend at work (for instance, many K-12 teachers do a lot of grading/planning in their "off" hours, whereas some other work requires no commitment outside of the 9-5 grind). I think there's another side to this, though, that makes us question exactly why men and women seem to gravitate toward such different career paths. Why, in 2018, do so few men become stay-at-home dads? Why do women seem to favor more personal time outside of work (and why don't more men?)? Some of this is purely biological -- a woman literally develops and feeds a child inside her body for 9 months, which is going to skew leave toward women after a child is born -- but others are more societal: why can't we live in a world where men hold more K-12 teaching positions? Maybe instead of dismissing these problems because of a poor metric [salary vs. hours worked] we should think about how things ought to be, and what we can do to be there. I'm not in favor of 50/50 male/female employment in every career, of course -- I truly believe that there are physical differences that will manifests as different representation in certain jobs. But surely we can do better than the current 95/5 ratio in elementary teaching, or the 20/80 ratio in software development. anything within 20% is a good place to aim in my opinion.