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It would seem that governments mandating equality works, and that basic equality isn't the end of society or successful corporate-hood as we know it. Who would

It would seem that governments mandating equality works, and that basic equality isn't the end of society or successful corporate-hood as we know it. Who would've thunk.

praha14 9y ago
"Gender quotas at board level in Europe have done little to boost corporate performance or to help women lower down" Isn't the article saying that they didn't work?
- robert_foss 9y ago
  I would interpret the very same sentence as equality is up, yet nothing bad has happened. I don't think corporate board equality was ever though of as a panacea.
- peterlk 9y ago
  I think the article is saying that the results are inconclusive. They have had little effect in either direction, so now that they are the status quo, there's no reason not to keep them. Arguments of excessive regulatory overhead may or may not be compelling, but they have an uphill battle to fight.
  - Shivetya 9y ago
    keeping stuff that doesn't show results but feels good seems an awfully dumb thing to do. instead they need to determine why it does not do what they expected. The reason I take this view is that too many will accept a state "we feel good about it" and never work to solve the actual problem. Its the #hashtag way of life, the lazy.
abusoufiyan 9y ago
But according to HN people everyone is censoring them and they can't even go to work and write weird pseudoscientific rationales for why they hate diversity programs and expect their employer, who is promoting heavily and publicly lots of diversity programs, to not like this and fire them and it's all FEMINISM GONE TOO FAR!
- shaki-dora 9y ago
  Yeah, I also distinctly remember HN's overwhelming disgust with the practice of exposing people for marching with Swastikas ("an ancient Indian symbol!") and calling for the extermination of jews. That was right around the time that woman got "accidentally" killed by a one of the free-speech advocates driving his car into the "marketplace of ideas".

It would seem that governments mandating equality works, and that basic equality isn't the end of society or successful corporate-hood as we know it. Who would've thunk.

praha14 9y ago

"Gender quotas at board level in Europe have done little to boost corporate performance or to help women lower down" Isn't the article saying that they didn't work?

robert_foss 9y ago
I would interpret the very same sentence as equality is up, yet nothing bad has happened. I don't think corporate board equality was ever though of as a panacea.
peterlk 9y ago
I think the article is saying that the results are inconclusive. They have had little effect in either direction, so now that they are the status quo, there's no reason not to keep them. Arguments of excessive regulatory overhead may or may not be compelling, but they have an uphill battle to fight.
- Shivetya 9y ago
  keeping stuff that doesn't show results but feels good seems an awfully dumb thing to do. instead they need to determine why it does not do what they expected. The reason I take this view is that too many will accept a state "we feel good about it" and never work to solve the actual problem. Its the #hashtag way of life, the lazy.

abusoufiyan 9y ago

But according to HN people everyone is censoring them and they can't even go to work and write weird pseudoscientific rationales for why they hate diversity programs and expect their employer, who is promoting heavily and publicly lots of diversity programs, to not like this and fire them and it's all FEMINISM GONE TOO FAR!

shaki-dora 9y ago
Yeah, I also distinctly remember HN's overwhelming disgust with the practice of exposing people for marching with Swastikas ("an ancient Indian symbol!") and calling for the extermination of jews. That was right around the time that woman got "accidentally" killed by a one of the free-speech advocates driving his car into the "marketplace of ideas".