Tim Worstall

Why is it (page 2) that those who could usefully wear makeup don’t?
And what is it with cheap shitty silver jewelry?

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But 40 years after it was enshrined in law in the UK, women are still paid, on average, 17% less than men for full-time work and 39.9% less for part-time work.
No, this isn’t true.
Firstly, this is using the mean average and ONS says that we should all be using the median: less affected [...]

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ACTRESS Susan Penhaligon has condemned television bosses as ageist, saying that at 61 she can only find roles in theatre.
The former Bouquet Of Barbed Wire star says she is desperate to shake off her image as the teenage temptress Prue Manson in the hit Seventies drama because she wants more mature roles.
But Susan says that [...]

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And here we were, thinking that the medical profession had at least some connection to science, perhaps even statistics:
The NHS faces a chronic shortage of women in senior positions as female medical staff hit a glass ceiling, doctors‘ leaders are warning.
Fewer than 30% of consultant posts in the health service are held by [...]

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Gaaah, I thought we’d managed to put these lying bastards back in their box:
Despite four decades of equal pay legislation, Britain has one of the worst gender gaps in Europe. Women in the UK are paid 79% of male rates, while across the 27 countries of the European Union the figure is 82%, according to [...]

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So, The Lancet publishes a paper which shows that home births have a three times greater risk of death of the baby.
Midwives are outraged.
Then we get obstetrician saying that perhaps a quarter of births are suitable for home births. Midwives point to Holland where the mortality rate is very low which has one third of [...]

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Laurie Penny on music videos:
The distinction must be made here between legitimate concerns about protecting young women from abuse and the contempt for female sexuality in general suggested by the term “sexualisation”. When feminists speak about objectification and abuse, we tend to be dismissed, precisely because those words still speak truth [...]

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The distinction between sexuality itself and the submissive, identikit heterosexual performativity currently demanded of young women and girls is a crucial one. Only when we accept that girls have sexual agency can we ask why it is so often stripped from them by structures of violence, shame and abuse. Only when [...]

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Wives who claim their husbands should help out more around the house because women work a “double shift” at the office and in the home are misguided, according to research.
If both paid work and unpaid duties such as housework, care and voluntary work are [...]

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Well, yes, OK:
It costs £200,000 to raise a child from birth to the age of 21 – which equates to about £800 a month.
Sure, no doubt.
Dr Katherine Rake, chief executive of the FPI, said: “I think the cost of raising a child has a lot to do with the cost of childcare. The [...]

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Isn’t it great that she has the choice, though? (I have found that this is what people tend to say at this point in the conversation.) Bollocks. What kind of a choice is that? If you choose, as I did, to stay at home, you do so knowing that you are losing [...]

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To grant anonymity in rape cases we are saying that the problem is not with the estimated 75 to 95% that never get reported; the 94% of reports that do not end in a conviction on the charge of rape; or the widespread belief that women out drinking, flirting or just plain [...]

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This one is going to cause all sorts of shouting matches.
Defendants in rape cases are to be granted anonymity in an unexpected move that women’s groups immediately branded an insult.
The proposal provoked anger among campaigners. Ruth Hall, of Women Against Rape, said that the decision was an insult and a backlash against the [...]

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But is this really “sexual discrimination“?
A female investment banker is accusing Citigroup of sexual discrimination after colleagues allegedly joked about starting a sweepstake to bet how much baby weight she would gain during pregnancy.
Seriously?

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What you get when you’ve a radical vegetarian moonlighting as a fashion designer.
Stella McCartney’s Birkenstock stilletos.

No, no, this is simply wrong.
Although I guess it will show off those unshaven calves to their best advantage….

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The “ideal wife“, he once argued, was “a beauty queen from Playboy who spoke no known language, ever.”

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She lives hundreds of miles into the countryside, thousands of miles above sea-level
I don’t think so Sonny, I really don’t think so.
Thousands of feet possibly, thousands of metres even but not miles.
One thousand miles above sea level is near the upper bound of low earth orbit….
As to the rest of it, well, difficult to [...]

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One of the points that we economically rational people keep trying to make is that at least part of the gender pay gap comes from the fact that men and women (on average of course) seek different things from their jobs. Women might value flexibility over simple pay for example.
Women often work in the public [...]

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This story is all over the place:
And once the extra time women spend shopping and in the bathroom is added to the leisure hours count, British men have only ten minutes’ more spare time a day than women.
The figures come from an international analysis of how we use our leisure time by the Organisation for [...]

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Yes, that was lovely, the earth moved for me too dear.
Now get in the kitchen and make me a sammich.

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