I have heard tons of conflicting things about the gender pay gap, especially in North America. So I decided to finally research it and see how big the gender pay gap is and what we can do about it.
Sources:
https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap#section03
https://work.chron.com/careers-male-dominated-10935.html
https://www.topresume.com/career-advice/top-10-professions-dominated-by-women
http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/4753/6/symplectic-version.pdf
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/03/22/gender-pay-gap-facts/