Every year, like clockwork, the grievance industry works itself into a righteous fury over the annual Employer Census results compiled by the Workplace Gender Equity Agency (WGEA).

English Playwright William Congreve’s 17th Century line, ‘hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ serves as an apt description of the confected outrage of the activist class to the gender pay gap, despite the figures failing to account for a woman’s vocational choice.

WGEA’s 2023 numbers say Australia’s total remuneration average gender pay gap is 21.7