Mark Latham’s latest rant has women rolling their eyes

Former politician Mark Latham has slammed the union movement for what he’s calling “sex discrimination” against white men.

The former Labor leader told viewers during his hour-long Mark Latham’s Outsiders program that a Unions NSW job advertised on seek.com.au offering two per cent more in superannuation loading for women was setting a “really bad trend” that could backfire for women.

The Unions NSW job advertisement offers to pay 11.5 per cent super for women, and offers men the standard 9.5 per cent on top of the $58,000 salary on a 12-month contract as a trainee campaign assistant.

Latham accused the ad of gender bias before waxing lyrical about how hard the Australian trade union movement fought for equal pay for equal work. 

“If you’re doing a certain form of work, the pay should be equal,” he said before reading out the terms of the offending job advertisement. 

“So the man possibly getting this job, hasn’t got a great chance, especially if you’re a white man, at the Labor Council.

“Where’s Kate Jenkins the Sex Discrimination Commissioner saying, ‘Hang on, you can’t pay less to a man than you’re paying to a woman for the same job’?”

One of the guests on his show, conservative commentator Daisy Cousens said the ad smacked of “female supremacy and special treatment”. 

“It’s a ludicrous policy,” she said.

“It’s assuming, say, that all women will want to have children because that’s what they’re on about.”

Latham responded with: “It’s sex discrimination, isn’t it? Wouldn’t this be technically against the law?”

“Men being paid less will be resentful of the women who are paid more,” said Latham’s second guest, Claire Lehmann.

But Unions NSW secretary Mark Morey told Daily Mail Australia that they stood by their gender policy which has been in place since 2013. 

Morey went on to describe Latham as a “small-minded, irrelevant, angry man”.

“We stand by our policy of trying to achieve equity in retirement for women,” he said. 

At the same time Latham was crying about gender inequality, Lisa Wilkinson denied a gender pay gap on The Today Show despite reports claiming her co-host Karl Stefanovic earns more than double her wage

During an interview on ABC’s The Weekly With Charlie Pickering, Wilkinson said she had never discussed her pay with Stefanovic before Pickering called “bullsh*t” on the program. 

Stefanovic will reportedly earn $2 million a year over the course of the next three years after landing a $6M multi-year deal with Nine. 

In 2015, News Corp reported he was set to take home twice as much as Wilkinson despite the fact his female cohort has 15 years’ on him.

Watch Mark Latham’s outrage below:
 

Do you think this is unfair to men?