Tim Worstall

FEMINIST Labour MP Harriet Harman is in line for the annual Rear of the Year award.
Yes, yes, yes.
You can add to the gaiety of the nation by nominating or voting here.
Pass it along folks. Let’s make this thing happen.

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No, not in favour of it but what does that matter?
What I will be very interested to see is whether this is true:
The Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equality between men and women, welcomed the move. Ceri Goddard, the chief executive, said: “There is a huge appetite among fathers [...]

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She’s been doing some research into why men use prostitutes. One point stands out:
Discovering the women were ­trafficked, pimped or otherwise coerced would appear not to be so ­effective. Almost half said they ­believed that most women in prostitution are victims of pimps…..
The presence of a pimp does not indicate either victimisation or coercion. A [...]

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Newsweek recently noted that worldwide, women’s income is expected to grow by more than $5 trillion by 2013, thanks to rising female employment and a narrowing pay gap: most household spend is already controlled by women,
Interesting point all too often overlooked.
Women do indeed, on average, earn less than men. Yet they control the majority of [...]

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A hugely important initiative:
Labour MP: ban shops from selling ‘sexist’ pink toys to little girls
No, really, it is vital:
“Since the early 1990s manufacturers and retailers of children’s products have fabricated restrictive boundaries of what it is to be a girl in today’s society.
“As a result body image obsession begins [...]

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GIVING women a lengthy period of maternity leave could mean they miss out on highflying jobs, a new study has revealed.
The findings from three continents show that the more family-friendly a country tries to be, the less its women succeed in the workplace.
I’ve been pointing this out to people for years.
British women fare better on [...]

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The average female board director took home £178,246 in salary, bonuses, benefits and pension contributions in the 2008-09 financial year, while the average male director received £357,358.
So they’re getting 66% of men’s pay, or 50% less than men.
I think we can all draw up the list of the usual [...]

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The BMA is getting het up about pay differences between male and female doctors.
The study examined the pay of 1,015 doctors working for the NHS, in medical research at academic institutions, and for organisations such as private healthcare providers. While part of the pay gap is due to age and experience, between 40% and 50% [...]

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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 [...]

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Weird that this very good (for a change) Gaby Hinsliff piece should be her last as Observer political editor.
Long but worth reading.
It’s a very good description of why there are so few women at the very top. The compromises that have to be made to get there simply aren’t palatable to many women.
(Perhaps I should [...]

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Well, I suppose that there’s glory in being copied. The Adam Smith Insitute has for years been calculating Tax Freedom Day. The day when we start working for ourselves having paid off the exactions of the State. So the Fawcett Society is copying that idea over the gender pay gap.
Today is the day when women [...]

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Women who do not have children should be allowed to take maternity leave, allowing them time off from the workplace, according to a study.
Why would it be only women who would be aloowed to take a sabbatical?

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Rather shot yourself in the foot again.
But it’s also a rubbish figure concocting a fallacious average. You can’t average out the two sectors because there are five times more unskilled workers in the private sector – most manual jobs have been contracted out from the public sector. The state sector is far more highly skilled: [...]

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Most women with very young children, Odone says, want to look after them for themselves; most of those with older children do not want to work full-time. A YouGov poll commissioned for the report shows that only 12 per cent of mothers want to work full-time; [...]

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Quint isn’t the only one breaking taboos. It seems that menstrual activism (otherwise known as radical menstruation, menstrual anarchy, or menarchy) is having a moment. The term is used to describe a whole range of actions, not all considered political by the person involved: simple efforts to speak openly about periods, radical affronts to negative [...]

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On the gender pay gap:
There are currently an astonishing 40,000 equal pay claims in the tribunal queue. Some of them have been there for years and years, delayed by the tortuous process of bringing a case, the difficulty of gathering the evidence and the challenge of finding a man doing a job of comparable value [...]

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It ruled: “We find that in no way whatsoever did the unlawful victimisation either prevent Miss Popa obtaining employment or cause her to lose employment.
“There is no loss of chance in this case. This is simply a case of injury to feelings.
“In the circumstances, we take [...]

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So, new day, new report out and they make the same old mistakes.
As a whole, the finance sector has one of the highest overall gender pay gaps in the UK economy – with women working full-time earning 55 per cent less annual gross salary than men. This compares to a pay gap of 28 per [...]

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Dim woman living in one of the most free societies ever created, with the least gender discrimination since we came down out of the trees, says that yes, gender pay inequity largely based upon decisions that women make themselves is indeed to be equated with sexual slavery and honour killings.
Do bugger off lass would you?

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Britain’s women control over £400m more expenditure every week than men do.
Rather puts the kibosh on the complaint that women earn less than men, doesn’t it?
Who the hell cares who makes it ….who gets to spend it is what counts.

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