Gender Equality Target Is Social Engineering Writ Large

Commentary The Australian government has recently released a report with incomplete and potentially misleading information to justify its claims about a so-called gender pay gap. Now it states that it will not award contracts to companies that do not have a plan in place to achieve gender pay equity. As I have written previously, the report is crude and misleading. All it really does is compare the median earnings paid to employees of different genders. It does not examine the underlying reasons for the differences. Why do men and women choose different jobs? Why do they choose to work different hours? These are legitimate questions in which an agency concerned with pay equity should take an interest....