For those who still have doubts about the gender identity and gender-neutral policies involve the erasure of women, after the pop example of X Factor (see here), here is another rather sensational one.
writes The Times which a thousand large British companies, including Unilever and Astrazeneca, is required to declare the percentage of women on their boards. The main reason is to assess and correct the gender pay gapi.e. the difference in pay between women and men for the same level of performance.
But Once again, Stonewall, a large LGBT organisation, has put its powerful and omnipresent stamp on the situation.
According to the rules proposed by Sheldon Mills, executive director of the Financial Contact Authority (FCA), the regulator for more than 51,000 financial services in the UK, biological males who identify themselves as women should also be included in the tally of women sitting on boards, despite the fact that English law does not allow for self-id, i.e. self-certification of gender.
This not only will distort statistics on the presence of women on boards, but it will be misleading also with regard to the gender pay gap.
Let us take the example of a man who declares himself to be a woman in his mature years: well, this man will not have previously suffered any discrimination linked to his biological sex - i.e. the fact that he was born in a woman's body - in his career and his salary. This will necessarily lead to a underestimation of the gender pay gap against women.
The funny thing, put it this way, is that Sheldon Mills as well as being the executive director of FCA who pushed for this solution -for the benefit of males identifying as women and the male system tout court-. is also an executive of Stonewall: in fact, a position of clear conflict of interest.
The 'Mills protocol' will make women disappear in a fluid, undifferentiated heap.
Marina Terragni
