I'm not changing facts, I'm stating them
https://www.payscale.com/research-and-insights/gender-pay-gap/
I included the same in my first post.
You said:
"Women pursue those jobs all the time and don’t get them at a much higher rate than men."
Did you mean to say that? Why should women get jobs at a much higher rate than men? Did you mean equal?
For the same job and experience, women make 99% of what men make. Open the link, it's right there in plain site.
I'm not saying that women have the same opportunities that I do. I'm saying that that most women have the ability to be independent if they want to. The facts above seem to agree. Women do not have to be gold-diggers.