40% of board member posts should be reserved for women
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If men are pushing and bullying their way to the top at the expense of quietly capable women, what do you think is going to happen in the board room when suddenly these meek little dolls are thrown in on a quota system at the expense of other pushy bullies who might stand up to the remaining male board members?
Some truly sexist people on this forum, on both sides.
If you can't even understand that men and women are equal, god help you in a situation where they aren't the same colour, culture, or belief structure as you.
Biggest problem with equality in this country is people who believe they are unbiased.
As for Mr square peg in round hole, I suggest you simply give up.
If you can't even understand that men and women are equal, god help you in a situation where they aren't the same colour, culture, or belief structure as you.
Biggest problem with equality in this country is people who believe they are unbiased.
As for Mr square peg in round hole, I suggest you simply give up.
julian64 said:
Some truly sexist people on this forum, on both sides.
If you can't even understand that men and women are equal, god help you in a situation where they aren't the same colour, culture, or belief structure as you.
Biggest problem with equality in this country is people who believe they are unbiased.
As for Mr square peg in round hole, I suggest you simply give up.
Worthless post full of hyperbole.If you can't even understand that men and women are equal, god help you in a situation where they aren't the same colour, culture, or belief structure as you.
Biggest problem with equality in this country is people who believe they are unbiased.
As for Mr square peg in round hole, I suggest you simply give up.
I don't think anyone is really saying that women aren't capable of having successful careers and reaching the top on merit, as indeed many do. But you can hardly ignore the fact that women are far more likely to take a significant chunk of a key stage in their career to have babies. It's a biological fact. It is also pretty well self evident that women are more likely to work part time, or at least fewer hours to look after their children.
At this very same time their male peers are taking all the extra hours they can to make up for their depleted household income and increased outgoings.
If the woman in this analogy returns to work say aged 40, having been out of the labour force for 8 years, then who do you think is most likely to be in line for a move up to senior management?
I know some women take their laptops into the delivery room, and are back at work the next day and so forth, but in my experience that is a tiny percentage, compared to the millions who better fit the above example, which happens to be pretty much my wife and I.
At this very same time their male peers are taking all the extra hours they can to make up for their depleted household income and increased outgoings.
If the woman in this analogy returns to work say aged 40, having been out of the labour force for 8 years, then who do you think is most likely to be in line for a move up to senior management?
I know some women take their laptops into the delivery room, and are back at work the next day and so forth, but in my experience that is a tiny percentage, compared to the millions who better fit the above example, which happens to be pretty much my wife and I.
markcoznottz said:
julian64 said:
Some truly sexist people on this forum, on both sides.
If you can't even understand that men and women are equal, god help you in a situation where they aren't the same colour, culture, or belief structure as you.
Biggest problem with equality in this country is people who believe they are unbiased.
As for Mr square peg in round hole, I suggest you simply give up.
Worthless post full of hyperbole.If you can't even understand that men and women are equal, god help you in a situation where they aren't the same colour, culture, or belief structure as you.
Biggest problem with equality in this country is people who believe they are unbiased.
As for Mr square peg in round hole, I suggest you simply give up.
Alternatively, you could gather up all of that male intelligence you have and try and put the word 'hyperbole' in a sentence where it actually makes any grammatical sense.
Count yourself lucky she's earning!
Actually aside from the financial squeeze though, I think it's a perfectly healthy and natural state of affairs, and I don't know why certain people seem so intent on changing it. Unless they have some sort of an interest in having people in high places who owe some of their success to their meddling, perhaps?
Actually aside from the financial squeeze though, I think it's a perfectly healthy and natural state of affairs, and I don't know why certain people seem so intent on changing it. Unless they have some sort of an interest in having people in high places who owe some of their success to their meddling, perhaps?
Regardless of the merits or otherwise of such an idea, once the government (national or worse, European) start to employ their own brand of incompetent social engineering, things will inevitably get worse for all concerned (except in the result of a specially commissioned study a few years down the line where the scheme will be hailed as a complete success).
Mark Benson said:
Regardless of the merits or otherwise of such an idea, once the government (national or worse, European) start to employ their own brand of incompetent social engineering, things will inevitably get worse for all concerned (except in the result of a specially commissioned study a few years down the line where the scheme will be hailed as a complete success).
The government do this because its a quick fix to a more complicated problem.julian64 said:
Mark Benson said:
Regardless of the merits or otherwise of such an idea, once the government (national or worse, European) start to employ their own brand of incompetent social engineering, things will inevitably get worse for all concerned (except in the result of a specially commissioned study a few years down the line where the scheme will be hailed as a complete success).
The government do this because its a quick fix to a more complicated problem.julian64 said:
Mark Benson said:
Regardless of the merits or otherwise of such an idea, once the government (national or worse, European) start to employ their own brand of incompetent social engineering, things will inevitably get worse for all concerned (except in the result of a specially commissioned study a few years down the line where the scheme will be hailed as a complete success).
The government do this because its a quick fix to a more complicated problem.It's then inevitable that they come to the wrong conclusions as to a) what the problem is, b) what should be done about it, and c) what the unintended consequences may be.
julian64 said:
Gutted.
Alternatively, you could gather up all of that male intelligence you have and try and put the word 'hyperbole' in a sentence where it actually makes any grammatical sense.
No the biggest problem is with equality in its own right. It seeks to dumb down, there is certainly nothing 'equal' about it unless you are a communist. Why no quotas for male primary school teachers?. Funny that. Your personal attack is typical of your ideological standpoint, please do elaborate, how are men and women equal in any real sense?. Alternatively, you could gather up all of that male intelligence you have and try and put the word 'hyperbole' in a sentence where it actually makes any grammatical sense.
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