Regarding the "wage gap".

[Major Nikon]

7. Some feminists will always believe that gender is nothing more than a social construct

...regardless of the evidence.

This is the reason why certain radical feminists are transgender exclusive (transphobic). If gender is nothing more than a social construct, then transgendered people can't possibly be assigned the "wrong" gender at birth.

Transphobia in the feminist community isn't new and continues to be promoted by radical feminists such as Sheila Jeffreys, Germaine Greer, and Julie Bindel who pathologize transgenderism for a variety of reasons. They characterize being transgender in various ways: as an extremely kinky sexual practice or a mental illness such as body dysmorphic disorder.

http://www.radicalwomen.org/transphobia.shtml

Believe it or not, these warped ideas have been floated on DU before and has gotten more than one of the perpetrators bounced. There are still those here who believe in this, but generally they are reallyquiet about it.