Philip Davies MP interrogates the (male) chairman and (female) chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about the pay gaps at the EHRC. Oops.

/ Mike Buchanan

The Board of Commissioners at the EHRC is the highest-level decision-making body in the organization. A list of the commissioners is here. The chair and commissioners are appointed by the Minister for Women and Equalities. Nine of the 12 commissioners are female. Both the chief executive and the deputy chief executive are women. Gender equality is a fine thing, when women are in charge of making appointments.

Last week there was the first meeting of the Women and Equalities Committee since Philip Davies was appointed to it, unopposed. I won’t inflict on you video footage of Sam Smethers, the head of the Fawcett Society, wittering on. Trust me, you’d lose the will to live. No, instead I’ll direct you to a short piece (video, 2:15) from Sargon of Akkad, in which Davies challenges David Isaac, the chair of the EHRC, and Rebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive, about the various pay gaps (not just gender) at the EHRC. The piece was published yesterday and has already attracted 100,000+ views. Enjoy.

3 thoughts on “Philip Davies MP interrogates the (male) chairman and (female) chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about the pay gaps at the EHRC. Oops.”

  2. “At 31 March 2016, one member of senior management was male and three female. Below that, at Senior Civil Service equivalent level, there were two males and eight females. Across the rest of the workforce, 80 members of staff were male and 113 female” from its annual report. 60% female so not meeting its duty to be representative !
    Good to see Mr. Davies asking the obvious questions. Clearly the senior bods were not used to being asked what they insist others report on. Good.

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  3. The EHCR is a very sick organisation that is not fit for purpose.
    I read throught EHCR report on the mistreatment of Disabled people in society(UK) circa 2013 because I’m one of the affected people.

    It was signed off by the head of the EHCR ( a man although probably a feminist as well).

    It was lacklustre until I got to the section on domestic violence. It had a section on women only. The EHCR admitted that it had no information on the domestic violence against disabled men. Which was no suprise when I discovered the source they use for data was Womens Aid.

    No suprise that the EHCR made no effect to find multiple sources on the issue of DV against disabled people and took the lazy way out by going to Womens Aid.

    I asked the EHCR how they could justify the report especially signing it off if it was incomplete and that they obviously made no effort to verify with mutliple sources, of course the only response I got was from the head of communications who stated that the consulation period was over( what an excuse)

    so I say to the EHCR( and perhaps I wish Phillip Davies could have raised this if he knew).

    Isn’t a report that speaks about the mistreatment of disabled people itself ( and that includes the EHCR) a perpetrator of the said mistreament by refusing to encompass all genders in the arena of DV and by refusing to make any reasonable effect to research the data.

    I can only conclude the the EHCR has no crediability and as PD has pointed out the EHCR is not capable of practising what it preaches.

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