SBO

There was a discussion on the radio this morning about the pay gap which exists between men and women.

At one point the interviewer asked the two panellists with some puzzlement something like the following: "Why is it that men whose partners become pregnant are not treated with the same suspicion at work that pregnant women are?"

To their credit they didn't laugh in her face.

Could it possibly be because men don't have babies? Sometimes the perception that the world should be a certain way overrides the common sense and blinds people to the fact that, actually, it isn't.

Memo to self: Don't listen to bollocks about the injustice meted out to women. It just makes you cross.

Oh, SBO, for those of you who don't know, stands for Stating the Bleeding Obvious.