A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2016:

Four years ago AVfM published my piece titled, ‘He who pays the piper, calls the tune. Or does he?’ It was an analysis following the discovery that in the 2010/11 tax year, men paid £108.0 billion of the government’s £151.6 billion income tax receipts (71.2%), while women paid just £43.6 billion (28.8%). The income tax gender gap that year was £64.4 billion. We’ve been following the issue ever since.

The state’s numerous assaults on the human rights of men and boys, as outlined in our 2015 general election manifesto, happen despite men paying the majority of income tax collected in the country. Income tax is the largest single source of government tax revenue.

The income tax gender gap increased in each of the three years following the 2010/11 tax year.

So, what of the latest year for which we have gendered data, 2014/15? The relevant Table from the ONS is here. It shows that in the 2014/15 tax year, men paid £121.0 billion of the government’s £167.0 billion income tax receipts (72.5%), while women paid £45.5 billion (27.2%). The figures don’t add up to exactly 100% because of some crude rounding in the income tax receipts, leading to a discrepancy of £500 million. The bottom line? In 2014/15 men paid £75.5 billion more income tax than women, a new record.

The data for 2014/15 also gives an insight into the average income tax paid by tax-paying men and women:

• 17.6 million men paid £121.0 billion, an average of £6,875
• 13.1 million women paid £45.5 billion, an average of £3,473, barely half (50.5%) that paid by male taxpayers

Of course if we look at men and women as classes, rather than men and women as taxpayers, the relative contributions of men will be considerably higher, despite the fact that male unemployment has long been higher than female unemployment, and government initiatives to ‘support’ women into employment (often into male-typical lines, e.g. engineering, on which £30 milion of taxpayers’ money is being wasted).

The ‘Conservative’ government’s policy direction of driving women into more paid employment, which leads to a great deal of unhappiness among women and children, poorer outcomes for children, and higher unemployment among men – the latter point demonstrated by Belinda Brown in a paper in 2013, here – has been a failure even in terms of income tax generation. Women paid £43.6 billion in 2010/11, and £45.5 billion in 2014/15. The relative figures for men are £108 billion and £121.0 billion.

Year after year, the income tax gender gap increases.

In the space of just four years – from 2010/11 to 2014/15 – the income tax gender gap increased from £64.4 billion to £75.5 billion, an increase of 17.2%.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2016:

Another article from Special Snowflake, in The Guardian. Note the sneering, patronising comparison in the headline between “Women-only gyms” and “boys’ clubs”. I couldn’t get beyond the first two sentences (below) but maybe you’re a masochist, in which case enjoy the piece.

Using women-only spaces to justify men-only ones is deeply ironic. The only thing they have in common is that they both exist because of male privilege.

Special Snowflake has won two Lying Feminist of the Month awards, and was the inaugural member of The Whine Club in 2013.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2016:

My thanks to Toby for pointing us to this piece from the BBC, which produced the associated ‘must see’ video (1:12). The accompanying short article starts:

Surveys have shown that women round the world are paid less for equal work. [my emphasis]

Hmm… what surveys would those be?

Now who doubts the BBC is a licence fee funded feminist propaganda organization?

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2016:

Few of our blog pieces about education and workplace-related issues have angered our supporters than one we posted in 2014 – here – about female Brunel University MSc Engineering students being handed a taxpayer-stolen lump sum of £22,750 denied to their male colleagues.

Social engineering in the public sector has long been rife, but it’s becoming increasingly common in the private sector, too, and not just ‘women in the boardroom’. The objective is to deny men advancement, or even stop them starting careers in well-paying professions.

Carolyn McCall is the CEO of the low-cost airline easyJet. She became the CEO of Guardian Media Group in 2006, after rising to be CEO of Guardian Newspapers Ltd.

My thanks to Nigel for sending me this:

Dear Mike,

I’ve forwarded the link below as it gives a list of examples of major firms actions on gender (of course no help to men!) Easy Jet are offering 10 places to women  on their pilot course at effectively their expense [note: more accurately, at their shareholders’ expense] if the pilot candidate (woman) doesn’t go on to be a working pilot. If you look at the other examples you will see similar as well as the usual Family Friendly, Mentoring training into management and other privileges.

I realise that you will be mad busy at the moment but I think this information of the case studies is worth having a good trawl through. I would think it will also interest members working in the various companies/industries.

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/gender-equality-in-the-workplace-case-studies

Nigel

The link will take you to a piece by the absurdly-named Government Equalities Office. The link to the piece on easyJet is here.

As a final comment, male unemployment has long been higher than female unemployment, and unemployment has long been known to be a bigger suicide risk factor for men than women. The cost of these social engineering programmes is paid in many ways, including men’s lives. Suicide continues to be the #1 cause of death for men under 50 in the UK.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in May 2016:

[Note added 26.5.16: This post was originally published in 2014, as is being re-published now for technical reasons.]

[Note added 6.7.14: The Brunel University story is small beer in comparison with this story, the government committing £30 million to bribe more women into engineering.]

[Note added 3.7.14: A FoI request has led us to the information that these MSc courses are of one year’s duration, and the sponsorships are worth £22,750. There’s a ‘living allowance’ of £15,000 – male students don’t need to live, it would seem – and the course fees of £7,750 are paid. Today we posted a new piece on the matter.]

Yet more lunacy, part of a scheme expected to cost long-suffering taxpayers £25 million.

From the article:

“Only around a quarter of students on engineering master’s courses are women,” said Brunel engineering lecturer, Petra Gratton. “Bluntly speaking, that has to change if UK engineering is going to continue to compete as successfully as it currently does… While some may see this as positive discrimination the stark reality is that UK plc can no longer afford not to exploit fully this enormous potential talent pool.

Some may see this as positive discrimination? Who – with an IQ above that of a particularly dim fruitbat –  wouldn’t? Four out of seven unemployed people in the UK are men, unemployment is a larger driver of male suicide than female suicide, the male/female suicide differential has increased from 1.8:1 to 3.5:1 in the past 30 years… and here we have one of the few remaining male-dominated professions discriminating against men.

It’s time to join up the dots. In this and many other ways, the state is leading men to kill themselves in large numbers – suicide is the leading cause of death among young men – although men collectively pay 72% of the income tax which largely finances the state.

The £22,750 p.a. additional grants will be paid to female postgraduates solely on account of their gender. So a female student from a rich family will get the grant, while a male student from a poor family won’t. From the piece:

A spokesman for Brunel added that the university was trying to dispel the myth that engineers spend most of their time on site, wearing hard hats.

“At advanced level, engineering is very much an office-based profession, where the emphasis is working with teams on a collaborative basis. These skills are areas where women have traditionally excelled.”

I’ve yet to see any evidence that women have ‘traditionally excelled’ at teamwork in a way that leads to improved economic performance. If there were any truth in this self-congratulatory fantasy, the senior reaches of our major companies would have long been dominated by women. Indeed, without positive discrimination, few women reach those positions.

Would female engineering graduates not understand by the end of their engineering courses, what being an engineer was about? Are they really that stupid? Let’s read between the lines in that extract, shall we? Women clearly prefer to be in nice cosy offices than ‘on site, wearing hard hats’, which presumably mess up their hair.

The reality is surely that by the time these women graduate, they understand perfectly well what the life of an engineer entails, and that’s why they’re quitting the profession they were suckered into entering in the first place – suckered by taxpayer-funded initiatives aimed at getting more women to study STEMM subjects. Now it seems the only way to persuade these women to undertake postgraduate engineering studies is for long-suffering taxpayers to bribe them with an additional £22,750 pa. They must be so proud of having been born with the ‘correct’ genitals to ensure additional taxpayer funding. The effort required from them? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

It’s not just the state that’s relentlessly pursuing this direction of travel. Professional bodies in engineering and other male-dominated professions are discriminating again men, although men surely represent the majority of their existing membership. Our public challenge of Nick Baveystock, the director general of the Institution of Civil Engineers, remains unanswered to this day.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in April 2016:

The Australian women’s football team is ranked #5 in the world. They made it to the quarter finals of the last three World Cups. Our thanks to Keith for this.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in April 2016:

With her latest petulant petition demanding a statue of a Suffragette in Parliament Square, Caroline Criado-Perez has simultaneously won our Whiny Feminist of the Month award, Gormless Feminist of the Month award, and Toxic Feminist of the Month award. These awards follow her three Lying Feminist of the Month awards, and an earlier Whiny Feminist of the Month award.

We should like to thank CC-P for her outstanding contribution to our efforts. Remarkably, at least in terms of awards, she’s putting clear blue water between herself and Special Snowflake.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in April 2016:

My thanks to Marcia for informing me that Baileys have announced the shortlist for their Vagina Owners’ Prize for Fiction. I can barely contain my excitement. If you have way too much time on your hands, details are here.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in April 2016:

Our thanks to Martin for this. We can expect female ‘soldiers’ to be exempted from night missions. If they’re exempted from day missions too, that will be the problem solved. Of course exemption from all duties shouldn’t be used as a misogynistic excuse to pay them any less than proper soldiers.

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A piece published on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in April 2016:

Our thanks to Nigel for this. The start of the piece:

Women will make up half of the BBC workforce on screen, on air and in leadership roles by 2020, the corporation has announced.

No mention there of women in technical roles, you’ll notice. Women will be preferenced for the more glamorous and well-paid jobs.

Two years ago AVfM published my article on the BBC being a job creation scheme run by women, for women – here.

The BBC as an organization, and in its output, is set to become ever more anti-male. From time to time we add links to examples of this bias on our Key posts, scroll down to ‘BBC anti-male bias’.

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