Letters to the Editor
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I think you missed the point...
The article suggested that the reason for the wage inequality was the choices women made in careers. I remember a few years ago while studying statitistics in graduate school a study was done with respect to wage inequality among tenured faculty at berkeley, that found the reason for the inequality 2wass due to the lack of women in the higher paying fields (sciences, engineering) as opposed to the lower paying fields (arts, english, etc).
The author of the article also mentions that it isn't just choice of career, it's choice of freedom. and lifestyle. Women CHOOSE to take a paycut to have more time at home... some do, some don't but for whatever reason, clearly most do.
You are right to then question the motivations of the society that would pressure women to make such choices, but the point of the article was is it possible to even address such issues through LEGISLATION? I mean we haven't even figured out what, exactly to legislate... Do we make sure that both sciences, and arts get the same salaries? Or is it we empower women to get perks that aren't available to men? Or do we just institute manditory use of as yet un-invented (must be because of the lack of women in the field of sciences) mind control devices to brainwash the public to not apply negative pressures on women?