Study: New pay system unfair – First major payout shows discrepancies in age, race, gender

From the Marine Corps Times:
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“The performance-based pay system, called the National Security Personnel System or NSPS, was launched two years ago. The performance evaluations, raises and bonuses handed out in January were the first large-scale test of the new system, covering 102,000 employees at agencies, bases and commands across the Defense Department.”
“The first large-scale payout of new pay-for-performance raises and bonuses, completed in January, was riddled with inequalities, an analysis by Federal Times has shown.”

This caught my eye because they stated in the title that there were gender discrepancies, so I thought, “Here’s another example of women not getting paid as much as men!” But look what it said!

…And women received larger total payouts overall than did their male counterparts even though they both received the same performance ratings, on average.

What do you think of that?