Research published by UCL Institute of Education last week concluded that boys’ academic ambition at GCSE level – higher than … Continue reading “Why we should stop obsessing over the gender pay gap”

Barely a week goes by without feminist action, or indeed, feminist laments, hitting the headlines. Whether that be (often skewed) … Continue reading “Book review: “The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich” by Victoria Bateman”

The second year’s reporting of gender pay gap data for large organisations was published last week and it makes for … Continue reading “Gender pay reporting is misleading, inaccurate and counter-productive”

Bad data cannot produce good policy. This gets us to the heart of the problem with the mandated gender pay … Continue reading “Gender pay gaps are not the result of discrimination”

British Prime Minister Theresa May is obsessed with measuring pay gaps between social groups. She championed the requirement for companies … Continue reading “The pitfalls of ethnic pay gaps”

The BBC has published a thought-provoking article by Rianna Croxford on pay gaps in academia, based on months of freedom of information … Continue reading “BBC study illustrates the pitfalls of ethnic pay gap reporting”

Continued from Part 1.  Those pushing for equality of outcome also fail to acknowledge all-important tradeoffs and unintended consequences of … Continue reading “Pay gaps and the limits of central planning (Part 2)”

‘Equal Pay Day’ has passed – thankfully, without the media frenzy which usually attends this non-event. Much of it, I … Continue reading “Pay gaps and the limits of central planning (Part 1)”

November 10 this year was Equal Pay Day, the day of the year when the Fawcett Society claims “women effectively … Continue reading “The entire concept of Equal Pay Day is fundamentally flawed”