Link for that ER article? I feel like you may have mis-stated it. Wouldn't they be leaving the ER sooner if their claims of pain were considered less than trustworthy? Legit curious, not trying to dispute.

The wage gap claim will need a source, and a good one, since it is so heavily and rightly disputed due to the horrid methods used in almost every research paper on the subject. If we can get an accurate representation of the potential wage gap, excluding things like pay differences between the young/elderly of opposite genders and including things like gender overtime differences, then we can talk about it. Until then, there's too much smoke n' mirrors for that to be a good point. (Example of how stupid the current concept of the wage gap is: new study says women without children in their 20s make more than their male counterparts. I can't find the raw data for this article, but statistics are so easy to skew that something like this or something like the "women make 75 cents on the male dollar" statistic can easily be produced from practically the same data) The wage gap needs a whole lot, whooooole lot, more unbiased research before it can be an acceptable point in an argument.

Feminism in the West needs to change or direct its attention to where it is needed. Sexism will always exist, and will always exist both ways. See, because I'm a man, my sister who has been in 5 accidents (4/5 her fault, regularly gets ticketed) pays a lot less in insurance than I do (not a single accident, no moving violations in 5+ years). Because I'm a man, I'm quite unlikely to win a custody battle. Because I'm a man, there's a lower chance of me graduating (or going to) college. Because I'm a man, if I get black-out drunk and have sex with a girl who was black-out drunk, I can be charged with rape (but I can't make the same claim). Because I'm a man, I can be sent into combat in a potential draft, but women can't.

Sexism exists in the West, but Feminism as it stands is not the answer. Rape culture does not exist, no one really thinks that women shouldn't be allowed in STEM, and withdrawing consent after the fact is stupid. Let's move on to real issues, or move on to other countries with real issues.