A short but excellent report by Kate Andrews, News Editor of the IEA. She’s always very impressive during media interviews. The piece was published two months ago.
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Justice for Men & Boys 
You rarely see anything about the marriage pay gap; married men earn 72% more than single men and married women earn 24% more than single women (2012 figures).
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Thanks Nick, but of course higher-earning men are more ‘marriageable’ in the eyes of women, likewise men with good earnings prospects e.g. university students (university being the ultimate dating agency for women).
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I note that the BBC is now facing a claim from some of its female employees for back pay due to the “unequal” pay they received compared to men.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5266727/BBC-faced-massive-backdated-equal-pay-bill.html
Women got a state pension 5 years earlier than men for the last 60 years. Will men receive back pay for this? Of course not.
If indeed the BBC have “underpaid” these women at all, the bill will run to tens of millions. The extra amount women have received in state pension over the years runs to hundred of billions. But as always we ignore a huge and real bias against men in favour of a much smaller, perceived bias against women.
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I have to say I have been watching the BBC’s discomfort with some glee. Particularly the idea that the EHRC will be “investigating”. Of a mind that as civil servants they’re all paid far too much I can’t help thinking that many of the high paid men so ready to “virtue signal” in the past, may get a bit of “karma”. May make others less inclined to throw their much less well paid brothers under a bus to sound PC.
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Still nothing in there about the amount of tax paid? Is this ‘pay gap’ pre or post tax? It makes a difference. Moreover, the more part-time work you do, the lower the proportion of taxable income, since the threshold remains the same for all.
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