That&#x27;s the meat of the discussion, right, the &quot;why&quot;?<p>If you want to be particularly devil&#x27;s advocate about it, there was a time when the &quot;gender pay gap&quot; was 90%+ because the majority of women didn&#x27;t work at all. It&#x27;s a rather recent invention that <i>everyone</i> should work, and yet more recent that <i>everyone should work all the time</i> and still not be able to make ends meet.