Tim Worstall

Lauren Laverne is Pregnant

And has this to say about it:

Cocktails, hotpants and watching anything with a post-nine o’clock
start-time were first to go. My grip on current affairs was next. The
trouble is, when you’re pregnant, real news updates, such as "Brown
succeeds Blair", immediately become substantially less interesting than
baby news updates, one of email’s greatest gifts ("Week 13 – Your baby
is urinating!"). It’s as if the assertive tones of Sky News’s Anna
Botting have been overdubbed by Charlie Brown’s teacher. And you’re
watching the whole thing through the wrong end of a telescope. I call
this the Baby K-Hole, and it’s something you can slip into at any time.
One moment you’re chatting to the chief exec of your company, the next
you are in deeply meditative contemplation about the respective merits
of the Bugaboo Chameleon and Gecko.

Sooo, anyone surprised that having children leads to a gender pay gap?

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2 responses

  1. Mr. Bingley Avatar
    Mr. Bingley

    What a bratty little thing she is, too.
    But the comments over there were entertaining. I especially loved all the sobbing about Grauniad columnists driving Land Rovers.

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  2. johnnybonk Avatar
    johnnybonk

    “Sooo, anyone surprised that having children leads to a gender pay gap?” …
    my cv has more holes than a swiss cheese – more than three very long furloughs to get a (large) bit of pot smoked, plus a general dislike of working – but I can still pull down 2K per week when I deign to submit to an employers commands.
    Men earn more than women because they contribute vastly more to the national wealth …. without the men at work in the UK economy it is difficult to see how we could stay near the top of the world’s wages tree.
    Too obvious to mention, so what do I have to?
    I interviewed at Big Parma today (didn’t get the job), these are some of the people (exporters) who make our money worth more – most of the chemists and programmers were men, though there were indeed some women, but mostly male. Interesting to note that there were women working on reception, nice easy jobs paying perhaps 10 times what a chinese worker earns for doing proper toil in a factory, difficult to attribute those high wages to what the receptionists were doing, must be some other workers who do whatever it is that we do that makes our wages so much higher than most of the world.

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