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Always apologise to Liverpool
Charles Moore
Stop Queen Camilla!
Melanie McDonagh
May’s third way
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Lost boys
or a body supposedly committed to
eliminating inequality between the
sexes, the Women and Equalities
Select Committee don’t exactly lead from
the front. Only three of the 11 members
are men. To some, this will be a welcome
corrective to the still male-dominated
House of Commons. To others (such as
Philip Davies, one of the three male mem-
bers), it is a sign of how, in Westminster, the
cause of equality is narrowly focused on
the interests of white professional women.
There is not a single ethnic minority repre-
sentative on the committee.
This week, committee chair Maria Miller
announced her ‘deep disappointment’ that
the government has not adopted their pro-
posals on closing the gender pay gap. They
are not satisfied with new rules coming into
force in April which will compel all compa-
nies with more than 250 employees to pub-
lish data comparing the remuneration of
male and female employees. They wanted
that duty extended to firms with 50 or more
employees, as well as a right for anyone to
work flexible hours unless an employer can
prove a pressing reason not to allow this.
They wanted employees to have a right to
‘care leave’ of up to six weeks and more
shared parental leave.
The government has rejected these
suggestions, but not because the Prime
Minister has gone back on her promise to
boost the interests of women in the work-
place. While a government has to face all
kinds of competing demands, the Women
and Equalities Select Committee, by
contrast, is increasingly coming to resemble
a single-issue pressure group. It cannot see,
for example, that there is an economic cost
to regulations. Imposing yet more bureaucrat-
ic duties upon small businesses, however well
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these duties might be intentioned, detracts
from their ability to create well-paid jobs.
For years, various forms of statistical
chicanery have been used to exaggerate the
gender pay gap. The point most often con-
cealed is that it has been virtually eliminated
for anyone born after 1975. This is cause for
celebration: the idea that a woman should
be paid less than a man for the same work
is repugnant and indefensible. Happily, the
vast majority of British employers agree. For
older women there is still ground to be made
up. But any sober assessment of the pay gap
needs to take in its virtual absence among
the under-40s.
Such sober assessments are in short
supply: it’s far easier to use crude figures to
What is it about our schools
which is failing to engage boys,
and how can it be corrected?
generate headlines. PricewaterhouseCoop-
ers this week published a report claiming
that the UK has a gender pay gap of 17 per
cent. This figure was created by ignoring the
fact that men tend to work more hours than
women. When, like the Office of National
Statistics, you compare the hourly rates of
pay, the average gap across all age groups is
9 per cent.
Even that doesn’t tell you the whole
story. Among 22- to 29-year-olds, the gap is
usually negative, with women earning more
than men over much of the past decade. For
women in their thirties, it is a negligible 1.5
per cent less. The problem that remains is for
women in their forties (13 per cent) and fif-
ties (16 per cent). Factor in career breaks for
childraising and the problem persists. So yes,
there is still work to be done.
But among the younger generation a
new issue is emerging. For those not yet in
the workplace, the grave equality problem
comes in the form of a school attainment
gap. There is no biological reason why boys
and girls should not do just as well at school,
fare just as well in exams and stand the same
chance of thriving at university. But today,
gender inequality in school is far worse than
in the 1960s — except this time it’s the boys
who are suffering. For three decades now,
they have been less likely than girls to get
decent GCSE results. They are now 27 per
cent less likely to apply to university and 30
per cent more likely to drop out if admitted.
Men now make up barely a third of law grad-
uates, and two in five medicine graduates.
A select committee that champions
equality ought to be concerned about this
growing disparity in educational attainment.
What is it about our schools which is failing
to engage boys, and how can it be corrected?
To her credit, one who has paid attention to
the underachievement of boys in education
is Mary Curnock Cook, retiring chief execu-
tive of UCAS. She points to schools where
the only male staff member is the janitor,
and asks about the lack of male role models
at a time when 15-year-olds are more likely
to have a smartphone in their pocket than a
father in their home. As she recently pointed
out, if the university gender imbalance were
reversed there would be no end of inquiries
and initiatives to address the problem.
Harriet Harman’s memoir, reviewed
on p. 35, recalls an era when the feminist
agenda was synonymous with the struggle
for equality. But slowly, these two notions
are coming apart. The pay of the over-40s
is a cause for concern, but the education-
al attainment gap of under-20s is another.
Anyone genuinely concerned about equal-
ity in Britain should be worried about both.
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When bookshops play censor, p23
Queen Camilla’s most
dangerous opponent, p14
Sleeper dreams, p36
THE WEEK
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Leading article
Portrait of the Week
Diary
Why I love the rail strikes
BOOKS & ARTS
10
May’s third way
Our PM is on a mission
to save global capitalism
James Forsyth
11
Connie Bensley
‘The Duty of Trees’: a poem
12
L’anti-Trump
Emmanuel Macron: hype
vs
reality
Freddy Gray
14
Ready for Queen Camilla?
Here’s why I’m not
Melanie McDonagh
16
The McMaster plan
Trump’s most interesting ex-general
Andrew J. Bacevich
18
Why we need Ubercare
A daring way out of the caring crisis
Mary Dejevsky
21
Islam’s lost enlightenment
How war ended Muslim modernity
Christopher de Bellaigue
22
Brutish Britain
We need a Social Highway Code
Frank Field
23
The book-banning bookshops
My stand against censorship
Susan Hill
BOOKS
28
Simon Kuper
Border, by Kapka Kassabova
Julie Burchill
The Spectator’s Notes
30
Ian Thomson
Claretta, by R.J.B. Bosworth
32
Andrew Taylor
The Fatal Tree, by Jake Arnott
Johanna Thomas-Corr
Trump’s sanest move yet
Charles Moore
14
Barometer
Giant killers of 1914
16
From the archive
The Americans are coming!
17
Rod Liddle
Are the Edward Heath
case cops 120 per cent gullible?
23
Ancient and modern
Tacitus and Trump
24
James Delingpole
The deadly fluffy green idiots
25
Letters
Who’s to blame for Bercow?
The Bullingdon ghost mystery
26
Any other business
A predatory robot licks its wounds
Martin Vander Weyer
Mary Wakefield returns
in two weeks’ time
Hame, by Annalena McAfee
33
Stuart Kelly
The Last Days of
New Paris, by China Miéville
34
John Greening
‘Acer Campestre’: a poem
Daniel Swift
Ashland & Vine,
by John Burnside
Marcus Berkmann
Lines in the Sand, by A.A. Gill
35
Julie Burchill
A Woman’s Work,
by Harriet Harman;
Everywoman, by Jess Phillips
36
Christian Wolmar
Night Trains, by Andrew Martin
37
Jack Wakefield
Rogues’ Gallery, by Philip Hook
38
Mark Mason
Reading Aloud, by Chris Paling
Cover
by Morten Morland.
Drawings
by Michael Heath, Castro, Phil Disley, Nick Newman, RGJ, Adam Singleton, Geoff Thompson, Bernie, Kipper Williams, Paul Wood,
Grizelda, K.J. Lamb and Jonesy.
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