A Polish MEP sparked outrage on 1 March when he claimed women must earn less than men in the workplace because they are 'weaker', 'smaller' and 'less intelligent'. Speaking at a debate about the gender pay gap in Europe Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a conservative and Eurosceptic politician from Warsaw, bizarrely pointed out that there are no women in the world's top 100 chess players to make his case.