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There are actually two things being conflated into (C) "Men should be paid more than women for the same work in technical fields such as engineering." This statement could either mean that we shouldn't worry that there's something wrong if we observe that men are being paid more, or it could mean that we should consider sex when determining a candidate's salary. The first statement is true, but the second statement is wrong, because even if it were true that men have greater technical skill on average, hiring processes are supposed to measure technical skill directly. Directly measuring technical skill screens off any salary-relevant information that sex (or any other demographic information) would provide.
Adding an extra test would still help. They can't perfectly measure skill, and if men are better than women, then a given score is more likely to err low if it's for a man then a women.
Also, directness means nothing. If you have a bad enough test, it's entirely possible that checking only there gender will be more accurate then checking only the test. All that matters is the correlation between their skill and the result of the test.