Comments on The Devil's Kitchen: The sex pay gap

I thought this was about the cost of loose women.....

2011-11-30T20:38:39.347Z

I thought this was about the cost of loose women...

I've known women who managed both parenthood a...

2011-11-29T14:39:57.431Z

I've known women who managed both parenthood and a high flying career. Without exception they despised women who played the gender card. They, without exception, regarded such as losers who denigrated the women who succeeded by pure ability. In short LOSERS who had to use means other than real ability to progress.
The women I knew also found it demeaning to be told that women should get special consideration just because of their gender. Same applied to successful ethnics - THEY didn't want a "leg up". THEY, like the women, wanted to be judged on ability - not gender or colour.
There lies the issue. The competent don't need special consideration.

Men also die younger. Have you read the DM article...

2011-11-28T18:51:43.591Z

Men also die younger. Have you read the DM article about the female-to-male ex-serviceman copper who wants a man's pension, or woman's, I can't remember.

The Economist quoted research that showed the prin...

2011-11-28T15:10:14.645Z

The Economist quoted research that showed the principle reason for a pay gap was confidence. Men ask for more money. They also push for prestige assignments.

To be fair to Hayes, he's only taken at face v...

2011-11-28T11:38:55.442Z

To be fair to Hayes, he's only taken at face value a much quoted statistic and plainly not had the benift of reading Tims long running debunking of it. The rest of his article seems pretty sound, i.e that the best people are the best people and that their type of genitals and skin colour aren't relevent.

Agreed, I've been saying the same thing for ye...

2011-11-28T10:56:49.112Z

Agreed, I've been saying the same thing for years.

interestingly, although having more kids seems to cause women to earn less (unsurprisingly enough) there is a positive correlation between how much men earn and how many kids they have (heck knows which causes which), therefore for a married couple who pool income and expenses (most of them), the negative motherhood pay gap is more or less cancelled out by the positive fatherhood pay gap.

"a clueless twit" Who are you an...

2011-11-28T10:55:37.866Z

"a clueless twit"

Who are you and where have you stashed the real devil? I'd assume it was an error but there's a lot of distance between the 'i' and the 'a' on a keyboard...