I don't know, I mean I already ran into the issues Jon did with Catherine's arc in my first playthrough and almost brought it up myself but decided against it for the sake of brevity. The idea that women should be paid the same as men regardless of experience fits into the same goofy parody that everything else in the game does. Every position is portrayed as stupid and monstrous, the consequences in a ludicrous fashion. I'd prefer it if the game were sharper, subtler or wittier with its parodies but I've only seen that one situation they are actually offensive and biased.
Actually out of curiosity I checked out the design document for Catherine's arc. Unless they changed it they mechanically equivocated not instituting a mandatory 50% quota of female officers as the same as allowing soldiers to rape women in conquered cities.
That's more than a little tasteless. Still on the whole it looks like Catherine is going to be placated as long as you don't have gender politics straight from the 2nd century.
