The tragic news this week of a miner who died in Yorkshire on top of the four men who died in South Wales at the beginning of September shows why the anti-male feminist's obsession with lying and telling mistruths about the gender pay gap needs to be continually challenged.
In addition, the Health and Safety Executive have recently said that 171 people died at work in 2010/11. Perversely for a government body, the executive does not break the genders down so you have to count them. I suspect this is a political decision because it would show far more men die at work then women - and we know government bodies never want to show men suffering more than women. If the figure was the other around of course, it would be so so different. So I had to count through the table and found that just 4 of those 171 who died at work were women and therefore 167 were men (97%).
This issue has been raised before but it is worth stating again that one of the reasons that on average men get paid more for women, is that for many male orientated jobs there is a danger premium. Of course, those poor chaps in those mines earned more than women in the same area. It is because there is a premium attached to the dirty and dangerous jobs they do. That of course, holds no brook with many.
Remember - ignore the lies of the anti-male feminists at the Fawcett Society, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and the government who say the gender pay gap is down to discrimination. Firstly, there is no provable gender pay gap for people doing the same job, secondly they never mention that younger women now get paid more than younger men and thirdly they never talk about the different jobs men and women choose to do.
Whenever, the gender pay gap is brought up, the fatality statistic have to be brought up as an point to undermine the gender pay gap lies.
Posted by Skimmington
And lets not forget that danger doesn't necessarily mean death (or at least not immediate death actually at work).
For every man killed at worked there are countless others injured and left with life shortening conditions.
Posted by: John Kimble | Sunday, 02 October 2011 at 02:21
Intersting artice, especially in light of today's news that women aged 22-29 are paid a higher hourly wage than their male counterparts.
I wonder what Yvette Harman and Harriet Cooper make of that?
Posted by: Mr. Oginy | Monday, 03 October 2011 at 18:39
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/young-women-now-earn-more-than-men-2364675.html This story illustrates a number of points. The similarity of pay prior to "family formation" . The likely effect of girl's educational advantage at all stages of education. And at it's end the effects of trying to get comparability of very different jobs. In the latter women have gained in often undervalued work but men have lost out as risks get forgotten. As well as deaths men are very much more likely to have severe injuries. Parity is achieved in minor injuries.
Posted by: Groan | Monday, 03 October 2011 at 18:54