It is not as much about dismissal of the proposal - they are just pointing out a trivial mechanisms to bypass it, all the while making us all worse off.
I for one suspect that better the "equality enforcement" gets the less ability a company has to reward a better worker over worse ones. This applies to both men and women.
When everyone is "equal" it just means more productive people subsidize the work of less productive ones. Which at least today can be rewarded.
If someone is not productive up to the company standards is usually let go, at least in private sector for small-medium companies ( Public Sector and large corporations are different thing).
At the same time, even if the range is large you might still give an hint to the employee for how far they can go with their raise requests.
I for one suspect that better the "equality enforcement" gets the less ability a company has to reward a better worker over worse ones. This applies to both men and women.
When everyone is "equal" it just means more productive people subsidize the work of less productive ones. Which at least today can be rewarded.