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> Xavier Fontanet, former chief executive of Essilor, a French eyewear company, quoted Charles de Gaulle as saying “one may not command without having obeyed”—h

> Xavier Fontanet, former chief executive of Essilor, a French eyewear company, quoted Charles de Gaulle as saying “one may not command without having obeyed”—his point being that women often lack the management experience that makes a good board director. who would have thought that we'd hear this argument in 2017!! Personally, I don't think things like this can be mandated. Yes, there is a gender gap between men and women and yes that needs to be fixed, but you need to target from the ground level and not from the board level. What we, as a society need to do is to encourage men to be less sexist, for instance, a manger who can hire a male and a female who are both eligble should not hire a male because he 'doesn't want female', that needs to be fixed. But I think it is wrong to say "hire 5% female candidates" Because that is not equality. I have seen the reservation system in India and it is horrible, to be honest, it only helps the top % people but the bottom of the food chain is exactly where they were since the start, the bottom of the food chain. Interestingly, 'reservation for women' was rejected by the female freedom fighters of India because 'they didn't want the superficial equality rights that women want in a few developed democracies' referring to obviously the suffrage movement. But that being said, the gap exists and it'd be stupid to say that it does not.

abusoufiyan 9y ago
>What we, as a society need to do is to encourage men to be less sexist, for instance, a manger who can hire a male and a female who are both eligble should not hire a male because he 'doesn't want female', that needs to be fixed. But there are no managers who will say that. They'll rationalize it a different way that people will buy into. > I have seen the reservation system in India and it is horrible, to be honest, it only helps the top % people but the bottom of the food chain is exactly where they were since the start, the bottom of the food chain. I have also, and this is the point of the reservation system, to create wealthy powerhouse families in a society which had very few from those castes. For everyone who complains about it, there are many more who appreciate it for the good it does and who understand that reservations are not meant to eliminate poverty (else they'd be based on financial status) but are meant to build power and concentrated wealth in communities which had no opportunities to have such. In India, before reservations generational wealth had cemented a very strong hierarchy. Overturning that hierarchy cannot be done solely by providing education equally, there has to be a balance shift somewhere. People are not going to voluntarily give away their inherited wealth and status, so similar wealth and status needs to be built in other communities. The best way to do this is educate some select few in that community, then perhaps they gain wealth from it, now their children get the same education they did, they inherit wealth and build some more, repeat repeat and now you have powerful families in underprivileged communities which could rival the ones in the privileged ones.
- thewhitetulip 9y ago
  Do you really think that the reservations based on caste i.e. SC/ST not having a creamy layer is balancing the act? I had got 150 in IIT JEE, a friend had got 70. I missed the cut off by 30marks, I am from 'open' and he was from SC, he wore woodlands shoes, Rayban glasses and he missed IITB admissions by 5 marks. Can you imagine? We were in the same school etc Reservations system has run amok, incidentally, even Dr. Ambedkar had said that reservations need to be there only for the first 10yrs otherwise it'd have drastic effects and they are. I am reading India after Gandhi and I appreciate all that was done by our founding fathers and mothers, I appreciate the fact of reservations, but the madness has to stop. People ahve started to treat reservation as their 'birthright'

abusoufiyan 9y ago

>What we, as a society need to do is to encourage men to be less sexist, for instance, a manger who can hire a male and a female who are both eligble should not hire a male because he 'doesn't want female', that needs to be fixed. But there are no managers who will say that. They'll rationalize it a different way that people will buy into. > I have seen the reservation system in India and it is horrible, to be honest, it only helps the top % people but the bottom of the food chain is exactly where they were since the start, the bottom of the food chain. I have also, and this is the point of the reservation system, to create wealthy powerhouse families in a society which had very few from those castes. For everyone who complains about it, there are many more who appreciate it for the good it does and who understand that reservations are not meant to eliminate poverty (else they'd be based on financial status) but are meant to build power and concentrated wealth in communities which had no opportunities to have such. In India, before reservations generational wealth had cemented a very strong hierarchy. Overturning that hierarchy cannot be done solely by providing education equally, there has to be a balance shift somewhere. People are not going to voluntarily give away their inherited wealth and status, so similar wealth and status needs to be built in other communities. The best way to do this is educate some select few in that community, then perhaps they gain wealth from it, now their children get the same education they did, they inherit wealth and build some more, repeat repeat and now you have powerful families in underprivileged communities which could rival the ones in the privileged ones.

thewhitetulip 9y ago
Do you really think that the reservations based on caste i.e. SC/ST not having a creamy layer is balancing the act? I had got 150 in IIT JEE, a friend had got 70. I missed the cut off by 30marks, I am from 'open' and he was from SC, he wore woodlands shoes, Rayban glasses and he missed IITB admissions by 5 marks. Can you imagine? We were in the same school etc Reservations system has run amok, incidentally, even Dr. Ambedkar had said that reservations need to be there only for the first 10yrs otherwise it'd have drastic effects and they are. I am reading India after Gandhi and I appreciate all that was done by our founding fathers and mothers, I appreciate the fact of reservations, but the madness has to stop. People ahve started to treat reservation as their 'birthright'