The Gender Pay Gap Pretends Discrimination in Order to Permit Discrimination

There is no discrimination against women when it comes to salaries. Albanese stands on his head to insist there is

Our Prime Minister is all about women’s rights.

He tweeted yesterday …

“Women should be paid the same as men. It's that simple.”

Wait. What?

Imagine Albo’s surprise when he learns that it has been illegal to pay women less than men for the same job since 1969!

Show me where businesses are being prosecuted for paying people differently based on sex. The number is zero. It doesn’t happen.

I wonder if he knows the Japanese have surrendered? I digress.

Undeterred, the champion of women’s rights continued …

“Under our government, Australia’s gender pay gap has reached the lowest level on record. But there’s still more to do, and that’s why we’re taking action to close it.”

Albo, fresh from the Tay Tay concert, is promising to solve a problem that does not exist.

There is no discrimination against women when it comes to salaries. You have stand on your head to insist that there is.

And so that is what Albanese does.

Albanese boasted that his government required major businesses to reveal the gap ­between the pay packages of its male and female employees. And, surprise, surprise, the data revealed women were being paid less.

Except that the data does not compare a man with five years experience doing XYZ with a woman of comparable experience doing the same job.

Instead, the government averages the wage packages of all men and all women in the same company and then draws conclusions about discrimination.

It’s like comparing apples with oranges in order to make conclusions about strawberries. It’s something you only do in order to make false conclusions.

The difference in pay between men and women says nothing about the employer and everything about the characteristics of the employees.

Men and women choose different jobs, choose different number of hours to work, and choose different career paths. It’s not a gender pay gap, it’s a differnce in the nature of men and women.

Marriage and childrearing is the variable key variable. Women’s participation in the workforce varies with that.

Typically, women earn less over their lifetime because they take years off to have and to raise children. And women typically choose to do this because most women prioritise their children over their career.

Take that into account and the differences between men and women in the workforce becomes trivial.

But, of course, that would leave Albanese with nothing to rage against. So he must lie in order to court the female vote.

There’s another factor at work in the so-called gender pay gap.

Women make choices that make sense for them.

For instance, they tend not to go into occupations where there is a high rate of obsolescence.

If you take five years out to have a baby and then want to come back to your career, it makes sense to choose a career in which things don’t change too much.

If you become a teacher or a librarian you can take five years away from work and then come back to pick up pretty much where you left off.

You can’t do that if you’re a pilot.

The government says the gender pay gap is the result of “structural and cultural” issues.

Well, yeah.

I suppose family responsibilities could be perfectly divided between mothers and fathers but that’s not the way life works in practice.

Try as Albanese might to redesign the nature of the family in order to eliminate male and female income differences, some things don’t change.

Not all domestic responsibilities can be shared equally, such a having babies for instance. And having babies is not inconsequential since nothing less than the survival of the human race depends upon it.

The gender pay gap is only possible thanks to a cynical and deceitful formula used to calculate it.

They take all the men in a company, add their wages and divide by the number of men. They do the same with women.

Now if you have 50-50 male and female execs on the same pay and 50-50 middle management on the same pay, but at the lowest end you have a 70-30 female to male on the same pay, which is the case in industries like supermarkets and bank branches then the total wage bill is divided across a much larger number of women and so a gap will appear.

But in reality, the individuals at each level are getting the exact same pay!

If you insist on fixing the gap, it must be fixed by adding more women at the executive and middle management levels. This then requires discrimination against men.

So the gender pay gap pretends discrimination against women in order to permit discrimination against men.

Senior female executives promote the gender pay gap myth, not because it will benefit their lowly paid sisters but because it will benefit themselves. And men in executive positions promote the gender pay gap myth, not because they believe it but because they want to parade their enlightened, progressive attitudes.

That’s all Albanese is doing. He’s preening, and hoping we are impressed.