I find this amazing: that an extremely highly paid columnist, one who’s been around both the newspaper business and politics for a long time, manages to miss the actual point of the entire conversation:

That’s why, after raft upon raft of equality legislation and a century
after first fighting for the vote, British women are still paid, on
average, 17 per cent less than men for doing the same jobs.

No, paying men and women different amounts for doing the same job is actually illegal. The complaint is that on average, women are paid 17% less than men.  The argument is over whether that is the result of discrimination or whether it’s a function of different years in the workforce, career breaks, choices over commitments to work and or family, choices of occupation and so on.

To state that it is "for the same jobs" is to miss the entire point.

So, how do I get a job at the Daily Mail?