More good news for women: according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the gender pay gap in the UK … Continue reading “Faulty gender pay gap stats mask the very real progress made by women”

Theresa May’s intention to introduce monitoring of ethnic pay gaps is likely to add to the rancorous identity politics already … Continue reading “Publishing ethnic minority pay data will only create new injustices”

Last week, a statue of Millicent Fawcett has been erected in Westminster, to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of (some) women … Continue reading “Millicent Fawcett was a classical liberal. She would have abhorred today’s trendy victimhood feminism”

Few can have failed to notice that UK companies with 250 or more employees are now obliged to report specific … Continue reading “‘Gender pay gap’ reporting isn’t fit for purpose”

“I don’t want to grow up and not be paid the same as a man,” Charlotte Usher told the Victoria … Continue reading “Stop telling girls they’ll be victims, and focus on the success of working women”

The furore about the gender pay gap continues, with little economic analysis but a lot of emotion. The latest concern … Continue reading “Pay gaps don’t have to indicate discrimination. They can have perfectly harmless explanations”

The Guardian has recently published data on the gender pay gap in different parts of the Civil Service. Despite the … Continue reading “The gender pay gap is explained by free choices and compensating differentials”

From today onward, big companies are now being forced to calculate and publish their ‘pay gap stats’. It’s unclear how … Continue reading “Three nails in the coffin of new ‘pay gap reporting’ measures”

Justine Greening, the women and equalities minister, is being criticised because she has rejected most of the 17 recommendations of … Continue reading “The gender pay gap is not a problem. It is the result of free choices”