OK as I said on the thread about the transactivist assault this week, I've got into a Twitter row with a commentator (not a transactivist as far as I can see), who, in the course of our exchange (about which she has said I was rude & dishonest!!!) told me that
a) we don't live in a patriarchy, and she's written a blog post to prove it
b) there is no pay gap in the UK
I'm going to mute her Tweets, because there's only so much personal abuse I'll take, but just reassure me - there is a pay gap isn't there?
I mean, the professional magazine in my sector (universities) published evidence of this every year - I know I'm paid about £10k less than the average of men at my grade.
I suspect I've run across a neoliberal, using post-modern high theory to justify her position - arguments that - to me anyway - are too complicated to pursue on Twitter.
But it's rather shaken me a bit - silly, I know.