Tim Worstall

So, something that every woman didn’t do before, what, 1950* or so, and many women haven’t done since the late 1960s, what with hairy feminism and the hippies, is now new and unorthodox if you don’t do it now? The idea that pudendas should remind of pre-pubescent girls is new and odd but not shaving [...]

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On Saturday rumours circulated that some supporters at Bramall Lane would pay tribute to Evans with handclaps in the ninth and 35th minutes of the game (corresponding to his shirt number and goals he has scored this season). Apparently this was a damp squib with few taking part, but the fact it was suggested at [...]

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Because it’s bizarre to see this logic: Yet, people – usually women – still do it, and there, essentially, is the root of the triple-whammy called the gender pay gap. First, careers are hurt even by short periods of leave, let alone a few years “out”. Second, the more limited work opportunities that this affords [...]

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The statistics show the corporation has 82 men in the top management grade with an average salary of £165,000, compared with 42 women on £148,000. The difference in salary is not apparent in the grade below, with both genders being paid an average just over £99,000. But there are still more than double the number [...]

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Why are all the blockbuster art shows by men? We’re great at celebrating famous male artists, but what about Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, Sarah Lucas … Because they’re crap. Next?

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This trend has accelerated as US public education has been cut to the bone – losing $258m in federal grant money in 2011-12 – $250 million isn’t even a rounding error in an $800 billion budget. For the vast majority of education spending in the US comes from local taxes: most often property taxes in [...]

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“The revolution in gender roles is unfinished business,” said Nick Pearce, director of IPPR. “Women still shoulder the overwhelming burden of household tasks, particularly after they have had children. When they earn more, their bargaining power with their partners increases, so closing the gender pay gap would help. Universal childcare, rather than tax relief for [...]

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Women earn less, own less, have less secure jobs, with three times more men than women earning in the top 10%. Not quite true, the wealth distribution tips female: all those widows inheriting you see? But more importantly, as every damn advertiser in the land knows, women control some 80% of the spending. Because, and [...]

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The latest expansion of our freedoms and liberties: Sexist remarks and wolf-whistles could become criminal offences PM to announce today that UK will sign up to Council of Europe’s convention on violence against women, which could mean criminalising unwanted verbal conduct It’s OK, yes, I do understand, randomly shouting about the perkiness or not of [...]

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So, about feminism: Women in the west still don’t have equal pay – in Britain we’re getting 75p in the pound, More women than men work part time. Thus, not unnaturally, the portion of wages paid to men is higher than that paid to women. And as the ONS repeatedly tries to point out, when [...]

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Is we all supposed to be equal or not? Like most gender differences in outcomes, there only ever seems to be concern when women are under-represented in fields like politics, and never any concern when men are under-represented for outcomes like bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctor’s degrees, graduate school enrollment, biology degrees, veterinary degrees, optometry [...]

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The grand question about discrimination is whether the discrimination being practiced is taste discrimination (“don’t like them, never have”) or rational discrimination (“no, sorry, but we really don’t employ vampires in the holy water  bottling plant”). Louise Mensch, an author and MP for Corby, said “did not have any ambition” to be a Cabinet minister [...]

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Sexism is the stock in trade of the tabloid press. Challenging it strikes at the very core of the business model, and that is what feminists and our allies must remain brave and clear-headed enough to do. No, it isn’t. It just isn’t. For a basic fact about the media world that Ms. Penny needs [...]

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She added: “This ‘sexualisation’ process objectifies women and girls, and grooms boys and men into thinking it is acceptable to view and treat women and girls as sex objects. This portrayal of women is incompatible with a socially responsible press.” We do not want a socially responsible press. We want a free press. As free [...]

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Just a thought, a near random one. When it’s men puffing out their chests, doing the peacock strut, this is macho and bad. When it’s women thinking about their titties this is a terribly important matter of body image. Why is it that exactly the same thing, standard gender behaviour, is good when done by [...]

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“Anyone who has ever seen a sonogram or has spent even an hour with a textbook on embryology knows” that pro-life women are on to something when they recoil at the idea of the “disposable fetus.” Hmmmm… that must be why most OB-GYNs are pro-choice….. Ob/Gyn, in the modern world, involves performing abortions. It would [...]

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Gaby Hinsliff on the gender pay gap. Amongst the young it is in favour of women now. Overall it is in favour of men but that’s down to two things. 1) Overall is comparing women in their 50s etc, people who did not receive the same education or career opportunities as the men of their [...]

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There’s been that “my god aren’t comment sections awful” thing over the last few days. You know the stuff, women writers on the net get shouted at, insulted, threatened, in a manner that men don’t? I’m afraid that I have to admit to be a dreadful sexist on this matter. It’s true, I do hurl [...]

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Because childcare responsibilities still fall on women, women with children take low-paid, opportunity-free part-time work, and suffer economically and, presumably, spiritually. It’s spiritual suffering to take care of your own children now, is it?

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