#TWIS: BBC's internal review over gender pay disparity shock: *men* need payrises
I'm not very good with the old archivers, so forgive me for the direct link, but https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-pay-review-will-give-men-more-rises-than-women-plsgjpf6z is just plain hilarious.
After an internal review on gender and pay disparity caused by complaints of discrimination from some female members of staff, it appears that the BBC has been illegally paying many men too little.
Queue feminist outrage.
Posted Feb 1, 2018, 6:27 AM UTC · edited
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What do you think about this article, OP? https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/31/carrie-gracie-leaves-the-bbcs-reputation-in-shreds-over-equal-pay
I'm in two minds because the PwC report appears to be quite high quality, and I think Jane Garvey attacking its integrity is quite inappropriate, but the Gracie story seems pretty damning.
I think, and stay with me here, different people get paid different amounts of money for many different reasons and most of it is because there aren't fixed pays for any particular job... but in an atmosphere charged with equity by social justice fuckwits, it's easy to benefit from any imagined slight.
or maybe she was underpaid because she had a vagina. I don't know. It seems unlikely, to be honest, because I don't think there is any big patriarchal conspiracy ruling the world intent to keep those with vaginas chained up naked in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant.
EDIT: Also that's the guardian. If you don't know what the guardian is like when presenting socjus equity bullshit leftist propaganda by now then I'm not sure what to say...
I'm know Guardian's usual angle but in this article they're just describing what occurred in the interview.
There's evidence that women are underpaid even after controlling for their productivity. I.e. They are paid less for the same value of work. This gender discrimination is much smaller in competitive industries, which means BBC is exactly the sort of industry where women could easily be underpaid.
I'm sure lots of people are underpaid. It's just more than slightly amusing that an internal review found 188 people not being paid properly for their services, and most of those were male.
I think it's amusing too, but it's hardly a victory against feminists.