I am imploring Peter Dutton to do women and men a favour and axe the taxpayer-funded Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

WGEA’s “gender pay equality” campaign is a bogus agenda built on bogus numbers – comparing the average pay of all women in all jobs with the average wage of all men in all jobs.

The gender pay gap has long been an obsession among elite women for the benefit of elite women, prompting an obvious question: is even part of their agenda to ensure already privileged educated middle-class women get paid as much as men but for less work, or get senior jobs that they wouldn’t otherwise secure on a merit system? These are confronting questions, but it’s high time we had more honesty.

If the gender pay gap disappears, that would be a sign of one of two things. Either women have freely decided, or been pressured by gender activists, to believe that they want to be in the same jobs, for the same hours, working at the same intensity as men. Or it will signal that women are being paid the same as men to do less work. Either outcome is rotten for at least one sex or the other, and probably both.

Do we really want a system which demands equal pay for unequal work contributions? Come to think of it, if the price of eliminating gender pay gaps is a sedate and underperforming economy, do we really want that?