Equality Politics

The Guardian reports today that the Equalities and Human Rights Commission formed 18 months ago will tell the Government that the economy is too fragile to impose pay reviews on business despite the fact that women’s pay is on average 17 per cent less than men’s and the gap is increasing.

Meanwhile, in today's The Telegraph, we learn from a front page report that MEPs are still allowed to refer to “waiter” and “waitress” because no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed and that there is no male version of “midwives”. Well done. Now that they have got that straight, maybe they can tell the UK's Equalities and Human Rights Commission a thing or two about something that matters a lot more.