"...Ribeiro, who was a top earner in Sedgwick’s insurance practice in its Chicago office"
If true, I'd hire her for top dollar in a heart beat. In reality, the top tiered men are savages and sacrifice their lives for pay, 80 plus hours per week. They are animals who do one thing, work.  Not a lot of women have that stupidity or cupidity ergo often the reason they are paid less.