re: If the Wage Gap Exists, Why Do Companies Hire Men?

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It's an arguement based off of getting paid less to do the same job.

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Yeah, that's the verbiage... but if you look at the data cited those aren't the data that they are using. The 77 cents on teh dollar rhetoric is so misleading because they lump in completely different careers and work weeks to come to that number.

Female engineers fwiw are highly sought after - but in spite of spending lots of money trying to encourage more women to go into the field there seems to simply be a combination of men disproportionately choosing the highest paying available field and women not having as much interest in engineering in general.

It would be nice in some ways to have more men in certain areas that are dominated by women (K-12 education) especially but men have been comparatively harder to interest and retain (perhaps again as a result of money).

Keep in mind that a lot of wage seeking by men (more than women) may be about sex. Men are generally not able to attract their choice of women without a larger income - whereas the sexual options of a woman are largely not affected by her having a lower salaried job.