Gender pay gap bot targets law firms (again!)

Everything about this story is pathetic, from the vacuous use of social media to fuel these annual virtue-signalling festivities, to the equally vapid reliance on meaningless “gender gap” data by pro-discrimination activists.

The alleged gender pay gap is a function, given median wages are a focus of the useless “pay gap” data, of administrative support functions being undertaken by mostly female staff. One answer to that would be to try to positively discriminate in favour of men for such roles, which would lower the male median income. That would result in a reduction the total employment numbers for women as a whole. Is reducing total female employment what these activists want? (Outsourcing some of the lower paid roles to agency workers is a great way to move the dial, if management want an easy way to show “progress” when reporting this nonsense.)

In law firms it is also function of the effect of women choosing to have children and either leaving the workplace or taking roles that pay less. That is not a function of discrimination against women, it is a function of middle class lifestyle choices by women.

Of course, the best option is just to abolish the pointless burden on business to collect such useless data and end the need to report on the so-called gender pay gap once and for all.

Yawn – the gender pay gap has been debunked for years now. Also, why are gender issues only brought up when it affects women? There are other industries/jobs which are female dominated, why don’t the SJWs talk about that more often?

The ‘gender pay gap’ has nothing to do with gender, but is due to people being paid different rates for doing different jobs. Most people know that by now.

It has been illegal since the 1970 Equal Pay Act to pay men and women different wages for the same work.

The sex pay gap is nonsense (sex, as gender is an invented social construct). It is a made-up figure for those craving victimhood. Men and women make different choices. They therefore get different outcomes. People doing the same job are paid the same: it has long since been unlawful to do otherwise. As politically unpalatable as this may be to the Woke Taliban, the reality is that given freedom of choice, women make different choices to men.

Each new generation of young men needs to understand that women are trying to impose affirmative action and blackmail to force de facto quotas at their expense, and each new generation of young women gets the opportunity to contrive, fetishise and weaponize victimhood in pursuit of status, resources and self-aggrandizement – or to pursue success based solely on their merits.

Affirmative action lobbies deliberately conceal key differentials when reporting salaries: the type of job, educational qualifications, work experience, and less tangible qualities that lead an organisation to rate one employee above another, including putting in more hours at work, taking riskier jobs or more hazardous assignments, being willing to change location, and training for technical jobs that involve less people contact. Left wing analyses which, for example, compare the salary of a male chief executive with that of a female trainee, are actively damaging. They deter business from hiring female staff in lower-paid but essential roles. They sow discord among workers, and tell young women that, no matter how hard they work or how talented they might be, they will never be as successful as their male counterparts.

The left’s fixation with pay needs to end. Why shouldn’t people choose careers that offer a better work-life balance or flexible hours instead of big headline salaries? Why should jobs be evaluated on wage rather than fulfilment?