Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel for showing how women choosing flexibility in their work is the main driver of pay disparities, so much so that men suffer the financial penalties too when they choose flexibility.
On top of that, women are underrepresented at the highest levels of most fields
Even with a truly even playing field, this will persist. The curve is simply flatter for men. Short of genetic reengineering, there will always be more men at the very highest and very lowest potentials. For example, males make up 60.8% of homeless people and 68.5% of CEOs.
Check the article's revision history; it's public. It was simply called "variability hypothesis" from the article's creation in 2007, and in September 2018 the additional name was added.
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Even with a truly even playing field, this will persist. The curve is simply flatter for men. Short of genetic reengineering, there will always be more men at the very highest and very lowest potentials. For example, males make up 60.8% of homeless people and 68.5% of CEOs.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/962171/share-homeless-pe....
https://www.zippia.com/chief-executive-officer-jobs/demograp...
(Not making a judgment as to whether I believe this is true or not)