Goaded into it by Andrew Neill on the Daily Politics, Farage has explained that the reason women in the city earn 30% less than their male counterparts on average is that because they choose to have children, they no longer choose to spend 20 hours a day, 6 days a week at work, which is what their employers demand.
He's almost certainly right (the reason most sane people, male or female earn less than city workers is for the same reason) but for fuck's sake, Nigel, if you're making that point, use it as a means of bashing an obscene workaholic culture (that almost certainly must lead to terrible decision making in the City, which is an area of investigation I haven't seen explored when it came to the financial collapse) not to wave away an argument about equality in pay. In fact, don't get drawn into that argument at all.
He's almost certainly right (the reason most sane people, male or female earn less than city workers is for the same reason) but for fuck's sake, Nigel, if you're making that point, use it as a means of bashing an obscene workaholic culture (that almost certainly must lead to terrible decision making in the City, which is an area of investigation I haven't seen explored when it came to the financial collapse) not to wave away an argument about equality in pay. In fact, don't get drawn into that argument at all.
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