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The Criminal Hypocrisy of Pay Equity Proposals (Open Letter)

by Peter Zohrab (November 2003)

To: Margaret Wilson, New Zealand Minister of Labour,

I hereby accuse you of criminal hypocrisy in your activities in relation to Pay Equity.

I refer to the Pay equity taskforce: Terms of Reference ( http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.cfm?DocumentID=17023 )

• It is criminal, because it aims to achieve the massive transfer of wealth from men to women, as a result of a corrupt process -- in other words, it is daylight robbery;
• It is hypocritical and sexist, because it attempts to reward women for the choices which they freely make as to what (cushy) jobs they want to apply for, and it attempts to punish men for the job choices that they make.
• It is hypocritical, because it will do nothing to address the fact that males are prevented from entering the Police force if they only achieve the physical performance standards that suffice to allow females to enter the police force. See: http://www.police.govt.nz/recruiting/assessment.physical.html . There may well be many other such sexist barriers to men in the Public Service. I wrote to you requesting a meeting about this, but you fobbed me off onto a Police Headquarters official. This is a serious Bill of Rights issue, and you, as Attorney-General, are seriously negligent, as well as sexist, in not taking this issue seriously.
• It is also hypocritical because it ignores the fact that men's work is often more dangerous than women's work -- ninety percent of workplace deaths are male deaths -- see: http://www.osh.dol.govt.nz/hazards/stats/fatals/fatals01-02.pdf , where this fact is relegated to a mere footnote. Since you are the Minister responsible for that webpage, you are also responsible for this callous downplaying of the sexual imbalance of workplace deaths. This added danger deserves a premium, in the form of higher wages for men.
• The above "Pay Equity" document assumes the existence of a "gender pay gap" which has not been shown to exist. Its first line states: "The Taskforce will advise the Government on how the factors that contribute to the gender pay gap...."
• The process has been corrupt. The nearest thing in New Zealand to a Government attempt to demonstrate the existence of a Gender Pay Gap is the Ministry of Women's Affairs document: "Report on public submissions to 'Next Steps Towards Pay Equity'" (http://www.mwa.govt.nz/pdf/nextStepsTowardsPayEquity-submissions.pdf ) , but that document systematically ignored all points made and issues raised by the two men's groups that made submissions. That is typical Feminazi behaviour, as exemplified also by Joanne Morris's paper "Women's Access to Justice, which the Law Commission refused to publish under its name, because of its grotesque bias against men.
• For many years, Feminazis had been using their control of the media and of the education system to spread the myth that women earn less than men because of discrimination. The Men's Movement has now forced even the Feminazis to admit that this apparent discrimination is due to women taking time off to have children. As the National Party's Judith Collins (who is not a Feminazi, of course) said, "Most women choose to be mothers -- me included. Most women accept this will adversely affect their incomes for at least a decade...." (Sunday Star-Times, November 9th 2003).

Sincerely,

Peter Zohrab
Acting President
NZ Equality Education Foundation

Postscript

Another reason that men's income is in general higher than that of women is that male-dominated
unions are much more active than female-dominated unions in pushing for pay rises. Whatever you
think of industrial action, it brings results, and it involves effort and sacrifice on the part of
union members. I was once told by a (female) long-time secondary teachers' union (PPTA) activist, who is
married to a meatworkers' union official, that men in the PPTA are much more militant about getting
pay rises than the women are, which is why it is men who have tended to lead the PPTA into
industrial action.

That is why the female-dominated primary teachers for many years had lower pay-rates than secondary
teachers, until they got the Government to allow them to parasitise all the hard work done by the
PPTA -- i.e. the Government pegged primary teachers' pay to secondary teachers' pay.

As in times of war, we have the females sucking the blood of the men.

Last Update: 22 November 2004

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