I'm a man and I offered to take a paycut to become a remote worker (I'd move to an area with more reasonable cost of living). My employer declined, they see value in having all employees present in the same office -- I can see the point if there's only one or a few remote workers, but if it was wide spread, people would change their behavior to become more remote-worker friendly. Which is probably a net-win for the company anyway since it would likely result in more written documentation to share information rather than having ad-hoc hallway meetings.

In most western countries it's illegal to pay unequally. This post actually ENHANCES the myth of the gender pay gap. The gap exists because of personal choices men and women make. Men are more likely to work longer hours and to travel more and to sacrifice home life for money. Women are the opposite and this post is a perfect example of that. Pay is not unequal, but the life choices are. When you look at the pay gap for men and women doing the exact same job for the exact same hours you'll find the gap small enough to basically be a rounding error if you factor in the penchant for females to be far less likely to be a hard negotiator come contract time etc. That "macho" stuff guys have tends to work financially in their favour to the tune of about 5%, which accounts for any left over pay gap.

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Unequal pay is a myth. People doing the exact same work for the exact same amount of time get paid as equally as their work ethic and quality of their work allows them to be.