Want to be poor? Be a woman and work in the arts
mainA survey of UK arts salaries shows average pay hovering just under £30,000 and women earning at least ten percent less across the board than men.
And that’s despite women being in charge at the South Bank, ENO and other key institutions. The pay gap is apparently growing. How do boards justify that?
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This blog is nurturing dyslexia in statistics.
Statistics for Dummies Rule #1:
Correlation is not causation.
Once again, Lebrecht really needs to enlarge his pictures: the graph is virtually unreadable.
As the above poster suggests, Lebrecht is deluded with his “statistics”. Men are being paid more because they are in more senior positions. And they are in more senior positions because they deserve them.
Unfortunately, there is probably a simple setting in his website management system that adjusts the standard resizing of images. In order to fix it, he’d have to go in there and change the setting. How could we expect someone like him to manage that kind of complicated stuff?
Sexist or troll, or both?
Yes, I am sexist because I do not share your point of view.
Your comment comes across as sexist, but not for the specious reason you gave.
That last comment was sarcastic, in case you cannot tell.
People like you need to realise there is nothing sexist about men outperforming women. You might be too sensitive to like it, but it is completely fair.
Troll.
How funny: you do not agree with me so you start calling names. Grow up.
Do these stats conflate part-time and full-time salary figures? If so, it may be because more women are working part-time.
That’s not a legitimate question, stay where you are, don’t move, you will be gender mainstreamed.
Depends if you are working part-time through choice. But then you and Norman know more about women’s real interests than they do themselves, the poor saps.
I’d argue ‘hovering just under £30k’ isn’t exactly ‘poor’… even in London!
Statistical studies show that women are concentrated in lower paying orchestras throughout the international community.