&gt;Should they essentially be punished for those choices<p>Men are punished by working in more dangerous fields.  They are literally killed for their choices and at a far worse rate than any income inequality, even of the most exaggerated reports.<p>But perhaps my biggest gripe over this whole issue is that I believe that had the occupational death rates for men and women been opposite what they are, we would be having radically different conversations about the issue.