Tim Worstall

Julie Bindel tells us that feminists have a great sense of humour. Because they have to have a great sense of humour. The problem here is that when you loudly declaim that you have a great sense of humour your jokes should in fact be humourous, not repeats of the Great Slavic Joke where the [...]

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There’s something lurking around in the back of my memory. That it was only in 1988 that women were finally, legally, independent of their men in an economic sense. Women became, for the first time for all of them, fully independent economic units. They could own their own property, earn their own incomes and be [...]

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The message is clear: whether or not a protest is peaceful and legal is entirely up to the police and judiciary to decide, Well, yes. I suppose so. The function of the judiciary is to work out what is legal and what is not legal. So using the system we have set up to decide [...]

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If full-time parenting was that fulfilling, more men would have been doing it Hmm. If science was that fulfilling then more women would have been doing it. If being a CEO, judge, entrepreneur, engineer were that fulfilling then more women would have been doing it. They don’t therefore obviously none of these things can be [...]

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Even the best-protected senior bondholders investing in Laiki Bank would see their holdings “wiped out”, Mr Dijsselbloem said. “Laiki bank will have to be resolved so yes, senior bond holders, along with the others, will basically be wiped out there,” he said. He said the Bank of Cyprus, the island’s largest bank, needs to be [...]

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Esquire editor Alex Bilmes, 40, said his magazine prints pictures of “ornamental” women who should be admired in the same way that people look at “cool cars”. Mr Bilmes made the controversial comments, designed to explain how men’s magazines operate, as part of a panel about feminism in the media at the Advertising Week Europe [...]

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But, according to HECSU’s reseach, a gap persists even if men and women have the same qualifications. Female law graduates, for instance, can expect to earn 28% less than men at the start of their careers. They earn just over £20,000 on average – nearly £8,000 less than their male counterparts. This was despite that [...]

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28 Jan 2013: Jill Filipovic: What does it say about society that websites where angry men shame their ex-lovers are thriving? That some men feel hard done by modern women?

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Nearly one in five of all women in England and Wales report that they have been the victim of a sexual offence since the age of 16, according to a new official analysis. The study says there are about 473,000 adult victims of sex crimes every year It does rather depend upon what the definition [...]

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In fact the imbalance has become self-perpetuating and detrimental to the orchestra as a whole. The Philharmonic’s most recent female member had to spend nine years on probation, rather than the customary three, simply because she took time off to have children. The orchestra’s own spokesman has stated that playing for the Philharmonic is “a [...]

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Mothers born in 1958 who had children by the age of 40 could expect to earn 32% less than a father born in the same year. Mothers born in 1970 could expect to earn 26% less than the average father by their late 30s. What the IPPR work also reveals is a surprising “fatherhood pay [...]

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Older women are the nation’s great untapped resource Skills and experience are going to waste. Labour is a taking a lead, but the other parties ignore this demographic at their peril Oh Aye? Jackie Ashley is 58 years of age. After that little sneer about the Me Generation, she really still doesn’t seem to get [...]

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It’s not just that men don’t understand women, it’s that women don’t understand men: Emily Maitlis, the Newsnight presenter, says that when a man tells a woman how well they look, it’s often a euphemism for how fat they are. No, it’s much more basic that that. T’ain’t how fat or thin you are, it’s [...]

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But I can’t quite find it. Women master cookery at the age of 55: survey Women only become perfect cooks when they hit the age of 55, according to a new survey. Attempts in the comments please.

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Women are key decision-makers in the home, DWP says Just look at the ads on TV. The people making those ads know very well that women dispose of 80% of the household disposable income.

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Although it’s clear from the outcome of the auction that female virginity is eminently more sellable than male virginity, members of both sexes are still being sold. In this sense, the shitty structure of advanced capitalism that we inhabit takes no prisoners, regardless of one’s gender. Stepanov and Migliorini have both allegedly chosen to sell [...]

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Have to say I’m sceptical. Scientists analysed existing studies about the syndrome to establish whether there was enough evidence to link mood swings with the premenstrual cycle. The majority of the studies, dating from 1971 to 2007, found that there was no proof that a woman’s mood fluctuates over the course of the month. However, [...]

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Rehana Azam I don’t think feminism is dead. As a trade union officer active in the workplace, I’ve seen the gender pay gap growing significantly over the past decade. So I think there’s a very real need for [feminism] in the workplaces, for us to fight for equality. It’s obviously not this one is it?

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Why is there only one working mum in elite football? Tough problem. The answer? Chapman said at the time that she could no longer balance the time and travel demands of international football with her commitments to her two small sons. The family had recently returned from the United States after a season when she [...]

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Usual Guardianista whine: not enough women doing things. Male journalists wrote 78% of all front-page articles and men accounted for 84% of those mentioned or quoted in lead pieces, according to analysis of nine national newspapers, Monday to Saturday, over the course of four weeks. Hmm, so, why? Well, consider the fact that it took [...]

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