Lughan Deane is the Communications Executive for the IMPACT trade union, who are currently running the #ClockedOut campaign.
In the discussion I slightly overstated the dominance of women in Iran's technical and engineering facilities, but the point stands. By contrast, women in Norway are remarkably reluctant to enter many male professions.
In Ireland it is illegal to pay someone less based on their gender. TheJournal.ie have prepared an excellent analysis of the raw Eurostat figures.
Eurostat also report that males suffer almost 80 per cent of workplace injuries and 95 per cent of workplace deaths.