Points out what a complete pointless wanker Patricia Hewitt is, and
what a total waste of time all her policies are.

"Inequality is so over, so not this generation. I find it an insult the
way some women go on. It is as if they have a chip on their shoulder."

The men's movement's widespread attack on vile filthy diseased
feminists, has given men and women of sense the ability to speak out
without having their careers destroyed by the vile filth that is NOW,
The Fawcett Society, the EOC, and their filthy ilk.

"The author - a male academic - claims women are motivated most by
a biological need to have babies while men are spurred on to increase
their earning power to attract a wife. "

"among those who have a strong motivation to make money - generally
those who are under 40, unmarried and childless - the difference in
earnings with men disappears"


"Women who took part in the survey put greater emphasis on work itself
being important rather than the level of income.

High-flying women this weekend said they agreed with Kanazawa's
findings. Sahar Hashemi, 36, a former City lawyer who co-founded the
Coffee Republic chain with her brother, and now a speaker on
entrepreneurship, said: "Inequality is so over, so not this
generation. I find it an insult the way some women go on. It is as if
they have a chip on their shoulder." "





http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1512591,00.html

SEX discrimination in the workplace is largely a myth, a new study has
claimed, with the pay gap between the genders explained by differences
in what men and women are looking for in a job.

The author claims women earn less through choice, putting family above
work, and not because male bosses are paying them less.

The study flies in the face of recent cases in which City women have
sued their employers claiming they are paid less to do the same job or
humiliated into such roles as playing the "stewardess" serving
drinks on the corporate jet.

The author - a male academic - claims women are motivated most by a
biological need to have babies while men are spurred on to increase
their earning power to attract a wife.

Women often do not want to return to the "rat race" after having
children and so choose to come back to less demanding, less well-paid
jobs.

"Even if discrimination magically disappeared, women would still earn
less because they do not want to make money as much as men do," said
Satoshi Kanazawa, lecturer in management at the London School of
Economics and author of the report.

It may explain why the contestants so far fired by Sir Alan Sugar in
his BBC2 show The Apprentice, a quest to find a =A3100,000-a-year
manager for one of his companies, have all been women.

But among those who have a strong motivation to make money -
generally those who are under 40, unmarried and childless - the
difference in earnings with men disappears.

The report is based on questioning more than 18,000 men and women on
their attitudes to work over a 25-year period.

"The analysis of the survey data demonstrates that men are more
motivated to earn than women, but this is only because women in general
have better things to do, reproductively speaking," writes Kanazawa
in the latest issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology.

According to the most recent government figures, the average pay gap
between men and women is currently 18.4%, down from 19.4% in 2003. The
official explanation is that women are the victims of male
discrimination in the workplace.

Kanazawa argues that men and women have different priorities in
choosing jobs. Males are more likely to take work that allows them to
earn more. Women choose jobs that allow them to help others, regardless
of how lucrative they are.

Women who took part in the survey put greater emphasis on work itself
being important rather than the level of income.

High-flying women this weekend said they agreed with Kanazawa's
findings. Sahar Hashemi, 36, a former City lawyer who co-founded the
Coffee Republic chain with her brother, and now a speaker on
entrepreneurship, said: "Inequality is so over, so not this
generation. I find it an insult the way some women go on. It is as if
they have a chip on their shoulder."

Stella David, 42, was last week presented with a lifetime achievement
award after the company where she was managing director,
Bacardi-Martini UK, finished in the top 10 of The Sunday Times 100 Best
Companies to Work For an unprecedented five years in a row. "I have
never been pressurised by discrimination. It may exist but the
old-fashioned mindsets will disappear over time," she said.

David, who has been promoted to president of the drinks company's
Asia-Pacific market, added: "Women who leave to have families might
want a choice to come back in a less frontline role. If we can organise
it, we will."

Alex Haslam, professor of social and organisational psychology at
Exeter University, who last year suggested women sometimes faced a
"glass cliff" when they were promoted in failing companies, said:
"The basic pattern of this study is correct. Men and women have
different career trajectories."

Kanazawa's study is published ahead of an interim report this week by
the government's Women and Work commission. It will call on employers
to appoint "equality representatives" to monitor salaries. A
Department of Trade and Industry spokeswoman said: "With women's
pay almost 20% behind men's - and double that for part-time work
- it is a fact that discrimination exists. Women are demanding a
better deal and the government is making sure they get it."



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