No, I don't think we have to wait. I think there are things we can do.
I think you're right: What we need to do is address the systemic issues that take it out of the hands of individual negotiations, the merit pay, the market differentials.... Collective bargaining has been one important mechanism for doing that. As well, certainly, things like compression of salary scales move people up in fewer and bigger jumps, so that you have a transparent salary scale. Women get to an equal threshold more quickly and then are there for longer.
Also, more transparency about what is happening and certainly addressing where there are employment equity gaps in certain fields, the STEM fields that Catherine Beaudry mentioned, but also architecture and some other fields, which tend to be the ones that command the market differentials.... I think there are many things we can do if the will is there to do them, but it does come down to removing those moments where the bias or the discrimination can come in. There have been efforts to reduce those or to minimize the impacts they can have, certainly, such as not allowing market differentials to persist throughout a career and those kinds of things.