For the first time in history young women are out-earning young men – and not by a small margin. According to the Centre for Social Justice women aged 16-24 now make nearly 10% more than their male peers in both white-collar and blue-collar jobs. In 2020-21, young men earned slightly more (£24,032 vs. £23,021), but by 2022-23, women surged ahead, earning £26,476 to men’s £24,283. The ‘Lost Boys’ report also found:
Former Tory MP Miriam Cates blamed politicians’ and the media’s “equality” drive for the findings, saying:
“For too long, politicians, policymakers, the media and the arts have turned a blind eye to the needs of boys in the name of ‘equality’. We are now reaping the whirlwind. Far from creating equality, we have penalised young men for the crime of being male, labelling them ‘toxic’ and ‘problematic’ and failing to provide a positive vision of masculinity. Things need to change, and fast.”
No surprise that nearly half of Britons say “women’s equality” has gone “far enough” then…
Former Treasury minister and adviser to Burnham in the Makerfield campaign Lord Jim O’Neill, who has turned down a role in his government, said Burnham’s first statement Commons was:
“The last thing investors wanted to hear… gilt yields have risen by a 0.25% in one day, which is a lot. We’ve not had that since Liz Truss days… If your country is under the focus of ‘can they come up with a sensible fiscal strategy’ on a day when the markets think ‘well no, you’re not showing any sign of it’ you’re going to have a tough day…if it stays like this your mortgage rate is going up.”