We COULD all still be talking about how square the earth is, but I think we've moved on to more fruitful discussions after the facts shut that one down.
Speaking in an entirely abstract sense, discussions should halt if facts don't support it. I'm open to hearing something new though....
I took their comment to be commentary on how there is still an insistence by many in society that there exists a gender gap even when many studies have given evidence that the gap is explained by a variety of factors such as work life balance.
It would be nice if the discussion could move onto issues such as why there is a gender difference in work life balance desires, in hours of overtime worked, in work place death rates, etc. But we still seem to be stuck having to explain that the earth doesn't have four corners.
And you can see it's not a particularly new problem: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/09/glass-staircase-not-dre...