But with how things have been, I realized that a lot of then prefer to stick to their shitty backward values than to adapt to the market. When I was younger, I didn't really buy the pay gap thing because I didn't understand how it would benifit an employer to pay male emplyees higher. No I see. My old employer refused to give raises to anyone even thought half of the staff has left and everything was going to hell, it was not sustainable. She was a nice lady, but a typical boomer, who though her employees didn't deserve more. Here is my to cents on the situation.