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i will concede to every point in your dumb list: even if everything in there was true, this would still be a systemic problem. so, yeah there is a wage gap.
Of which no one can responsibly say anything beyond "a nonzero amount of sexism exists". Which it obviously does (and in both directions, of course--even I personally have gotten the short end of the stick more than once for being the only male in my department), there will never be literally zero bigotry, sex-related or otherwise. But there is no evidence that there is enough sexism to create an average difference between the sexes large enough to measure, when all known factors for average earnings differences are taken into account (and there are certainly still more non-sex-related factors that we don't know about and haven't accounted for yet).
This means two things:
you're right, i guess i didn't consider: