Can ' t say I see men talking to women like they ' re stupid all the time myself . I see it every day . I work in a company that ' s mostly men so it ' s easy to see the women get treated differently . When they compare women and men with the same experience and histories in the same roles the gender gap is tiny . I don ' t know about that . I think a lot of women might think it ' s not so tiny . The overall paygap is around 22 30 % d a t a b o o k a r c h i v e w o m e ninthelaborforceadatabook 2014 . pdf depending which study you read . The completely unexplained paygap the part of that that ' s generally only explained by direct gender discrimination is around 58 % depending on what study you ' re looking at 077147779 c 1 f 8232 fe 70 a 45 ccompendiumsansappendix . pdf . I ' d be furious if I got 8 % less because I have a dick . Now some of the things that go into that other ~ 22 % wage gap are fair and reasonable like women having less experience given a number of years in an industry due to maternity leave but other things are not so reasonable like women who stay in the workforce statistically earning less overall once they have a kid , and men who stay in the workforce statistically earning more overall once they have a kid are not so fair and reasonable . It ' s not just ' bad statistics ' there ' s hundreds of studies on this stuff . Some of them disagree on the specifics , but the presence of an unexplained pay gap is pretty ubiquitous .