Much of what she says is true:
It is not that women and men are the same, but the differences between
most women and most men are no greater (and often much less) than other
profound human differences in character, skill, brain, status or taste.
Which is of course why we have markets, not centralized State provision of things, so that differences in character, skill, brain, status and taste can be expressed.
Unfortunately, this is nonsense:
Meanwhile the CBI resists longer maternity leave, the right to flexible
working hours for all parents or raising the minimum wage, which mostly
helps women. The 17% gap in women’s pay keeps mothers poor, their
traditional but vital caring jobs valued less than men’s work just
because traditionally low-paid women do it.
The gender pay gap is largely caused by such things as longer maternity leave. Iªt’s exactly those one and two year absences from the labour force that cause it. So arguing for more of it to reduce the pay gap is a little, shall we say, perverse?
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