A charity which cancelled its own “racist, sexist and ableist” exhibition has announced a new £211,000-a-year diversity role.
The Wellcome Trust, a London-based health research foundation, is recruiting for the newly-created position of Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer to “strengthen the shared vision, mission and strategy for systemic and lasting change internally”.
The successful candidate will get an annual salary of £211,500 as, fellow senior employees claimed, it is important to pay them not only “what they are worth” but also “on a par with” other director roles.
A certain circularity to the argument there, isn’t there? If they’re a director they must be paid like a director, whatever the job is worth. But because the job is of a director, then it’s worth what a director’s job is worth.
Compare that to an actual business, where the HR power skirts get paid very much less than those – male or female – who actually do something useful. And don’t the campaigners bitch about that too.