A young woman who had worked in finance a few ago told me that in recent interviews with employers in the financial sector she was offered a salary almost half of what she was paid before. That prompted me to look for an update on the gender gap. According the BBC calculator of 2019 the gender gap at the (in)famous bank HSBC was 30%. According to AI, as of April 2023, the gap was 43%.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51