Article: What Harriet Harman hasn't thought of is a woman's right to choose a less well paid job.

Byline: SUSAN PINKER

FURIOUS indignation greeted Equalities Minister Harriet Harman'sannouncement last week that companies may be required to discriminate in favourof women and ethnic minorities to somehow 'even out the score' in theworkplace. Many critics protested that the new Equality Bill would interferewith an employer's right to appoint the best candidate. But the real questionis whether these measures can ever deliver the 'equality' that Ms Harman wantsto engineer.

Let's get one thing clear - officially sanctioned discrimination on race,gender and religion is nothing new in Britain. Between the wars, it wasconsidered perfectly fair that married women were ...

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