On The Sexes And “Equal” Pay
TheEye has not been able to watch the new on the BBC today. It has been too painful. Actually Sky has been just as bad…for we have yet another report out claiming that women are horribly done by in the world of work.
Denizens of Liverpool can stop reading at this point…this post doesn’t affect you.
So let’s consider the headlines and then the unspoken facts which balance out the hand-wringing. With any unofficial, unverified, unaudited non-government report (that bit is glossed over rather quickly in the reports) we should always ask ourselves who has written it and what their motivation could be.
Or, to put it another way: who is the author Lord Davies of Abersoch? Indeed, for it is he! Mervyn Davies…ex Labour Minister under Gordon Brown (who elevated him to the Lords), and a close friend of Peter Mandelson (no, not that close. Wash your mind out.)
You don’t get that nugget of info on Sky or the BBC today.
If we listen beyond the headlines we learn that for middle management pay, women are paid more than men and for upper management women’s pay is increasing faster than male pay. But at a speed that will supposedly converge in 98 years.
And yet the only thing you walk away from the news reports remembering is that 98 year figure. Great spining, Lord Labour Bloke of Aberthingy.
Trouble is, a number like that is an example of Proofiness…the use of misleading statistics to confirm what you already believe. Just take a series of apple-to-orange comparisons and you can justify the invention of a raft of feminist policy initiatives whilst actually achieving nothing useful at all. Usually causing more damage than benefit.
This isn’t to say that all is equal between the genders in the labour market – it isn’t. But exaggerating and sensationalising them as we’ve seen on the news channels today only encourages resentment-fueled demands of government which are impossible to satisfy. This is followed by the tribunal and compensation culture which destroys small companies and whole industries alike.
Ignore the news today – put a dvd on.
The lie is that women have always worked. 1/3 of women have always worked for pay, however much of that was cottage industry and farmwork. Isn’t interesting that as the banksters were preparing to devalue the currency in the ’70s by coming off the metal standards and such, the femisist movement was pushed to convince women that they weren’t anything unless they received a paycheck. So now twice the population was up for being taxed instead of just individual households. Also, children are left to fend for themselves. Here comes your friendly government nannies to take care of them and get their minds right.
Check out the Ford Foundation and how they orchastrated the modern women’s lib movement to destablize society.