GENDER PAY GAP - EXPOSING THE MYTHS OF BRITISH FEMINISTS #3

The Fawcett Society, Britain's leading Feminist Fundamentalist* group, have been running a desperate campaign called "It's a rip off". It can be found here (link).

The aim of the campaign is to show that because of the gender pay gap, women work for free from the 30th October. They also use data showing that the average pay of a mechanic is higher than a carer and that a police officers pay is higher than a nurse. This is to highlight that 'male jobs' pay more than 'female' jobs.

This is as ever misleading because a women and male mechanic would be paid the same (if passing the equal job, talent and experience test (link)).

In addition, as most mechanic positions are in the private sector because they face different economic realities (customers, working hours and profits) than people working in public sector carers job.

In addition, it does not take into account that a police officers job is always going to be paid more than a nurse because of the inherent dangers that a police officer would face relative to a nurse. Some police officers die in the line of duty, how many nurses do?

This campaign is nonsense and shows a sign of desperation in keeping the feminist gender pay gap agenda going. They received far less publicity this year when the gender pay gap figures were published than in recent years.

This is because over the last year, people have been looking at the gap in a rational economic fashion rather than just accepting the siren calls from organisations such as The Fawcett Society, The Equal Opportunities Commission and the Minister for Women. Let us hope this desperation continues because it just shows them up. 

* People and organisations that want women to have more rights than men

Comments

[fabulous dad]

You are right to point out how nonsensical this campaign is, promoted by the likes of Labour Councillor Antonia Bance, who until recently was a trustee of Fawcett Society, an organisation that Oxfam has been funding to the hilt for many years. Not surprisingly, Councillor Bance is also the deputy director of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme (UKPP). So this nonsense keeps being promoted, paid largely by the British tax payer! Let's also not forget the other man-hating rubbish that spews from Antonia Bance's blog about fathers whom she blames fot not having access to their children.