Can't understand reasoning for this TC

[madscientist]

In our corporation there is a ------- between male

and female ------- because 73 percent of the men and

34 percent of the women polled believe that our

company provides equal compensation to men and

women.

(A) contrast .. stereotypes

(B) difference .. perceptions

(C) variation .. salaries

(D) resemblance .. employees

(E) similarity .. aspirations

I chose (C) as my semantic guess for the first blank was (discrepancy) and the second blank was (salaries) as I thought it is being re-used with compensation. I don’t understand how the correct answer is (B). As a significant portion of both genders voted, but not all agreed the salaries were equal. Therefore, there is a varitaion between the salaries.

[ganesh]

@madscientist

I chose (C) as my semantic guess for the first blank was (discrepancy) and the second blank was (salaries) as I thought it is being re-used with compensation. I don’t understand how the correct answer is (B). As a significant portion of both genders voted, but not all agreed the salaries were equal. Therefore, there is a varitaion between the salaries.

Just because people believe something doesn’t mean it’s true

It’s better to fill blank 2 with “beliefs”, since we are talking about their beliefs about salaries not the actual salaries themselves which we have no evidence of