Here’s how the gender pay gap should be measured:
In future, ONS will highlight the following measures:
• All female employees’ median pay compared with all male
employees’ median pay
• Female full-time employees’ median pay compared with male
full-time employees’ median pay
• Female part-time employees’ median pay compared with male
part-time employees’ median pay
The fuller report is here.
And those numbers are?
The measure for all employees showed a pay difference of 22.5 per
cent in favour of men and the pay difference for full-timers was 12.8
per cent in April 2008. When looking at part-time employees, the
difference was -3.5 per cent, meaning that part-time men were paid
less on average than part-time women.
And the real meaning of this? Fuck off Harman you lying cow.
And that goes double for the Fawcett Society and the EHRC.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Brian, follower of Deornoth // Nov 5, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Err…while I concur with the sentiment, could you fill in a little bit of the gap in the logic there?
2 JonnyN // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:11 am
Hear, hear. The damage that has and will be done trying to solve a non-existent problem is quite frightening.
3 john b // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:55 pm
@1 it’s become popular among the unthinking section of the left (yes, insert jibe here, and fuck off) to compare full-time male earnings with part-time female earnings, and claim that that is the gender pay gap.
Tim adds: And I was the first person (at least so far as I know) to start screaming about it. Which is why I’m so happy at this result (err, no, of course I didn’t cause the result, just happy about it).
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