Tuesday 26 May 2009

Accusations of sexism in the MPs expenses scandal

I've added a new column to my MP's expenses database, this one for the gender sex of MP. So now we can look at whether female MPs or more or less honest than male MPs based on reports in the Telegraph and the blogosphere. I ought to add the caveat for comparative purposes that regardless of gender sex the proportion of fiddling MPs for each political party is LibDem 25%, Labour 26%, Conservative 29%

gender sex
Total MPs
Fiddlers
Saints
Male
522
142
32
Female
126
36
11
%male
81%
27%
16%
%female
19%
29%
9%

And, cos I know you really love graphs which compare the three main political parties:-

So is The Telegraph picking on female Conservative MPs or are they more likely to be indulging than other colours?

1 comment:

  1. "...by gender". Oh no. Not here too. Gender is a grammatical term. Nouns and adjectives have a gender. People and animals have a sex.

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