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>When I read stuff like this "EU pushes 40% quota for women on boards" My jaw just like ... drops. Just image the OUTRAGE that would be caused if the headline w

by lkbm 11y ago

>When I read stuff like this "EU pushes 40% quota for women on boards" My jaw just like ... drops. Just image the OUTRAGE that would be caused if the headline was this "EU pushes 50% quota for women in coal mines" [Edited because my first attempt at quotes was screwing up] There might be a difference between demanding equal representation in governance and equal representation in low-level labor. In both cases I want the best person for the job to have the job, but in one case, the job involves representing the interests of a diverse group. > I am all for equality, but just handing everything to women on a silver platter If we were handing things to _a woman_ on a silver platter, that'd be a problem. This is more along the lines of insisting that every state, even lousy ol' Arkansas, empty Wyoming, and teeny tiny Rhode Island each get at least three seats in Congress.

yummyfajitas 11y ago
It's the job of board members to represent the interests of a diverse group of shareholders. Do male and female shareholders somehow have different interests - men want shareholder value maximized while women want something else?
- zo1 11y ago
  It's a false problem (or manufactured?). I personally think that discrimination of the sort that started this movement has long been eradicated for the most part. That's why the goal-posts have now moved on past actual cases of discrimination and more into grey areas such as "micro-aggression", "representation-quotas" and the like. Consequently, I'm not comfortable making sweeping conclusions about institutionalized racism/sexism, merely from quotas and fancy-new-age feminism terms that take male-female dynamics to extremes in order to justify wrong-doing.
ensignavenger 11y ago
To make your analogy really work, we would have to require women to vote for women directors and men to vote for men directors. But as another commenter noted, I question whether the interests of men and women are really all that divergent.

by lkbm 11y ago

yummyfajitas 11y ago

It's the job of board members to represent the interests of a diverse group of shareholders. Do male and female shareholders somehow have different interests - men want shareholder value maximized while women want something else?

zo1 11y ago
It's a false problem (or manufactured?). I personally think that discrimination of the sort that started this movement has long been eradicated for the most part. That's why the goal-posts have now moved on past actual cases of discrimination and more into grey areas such as "micro-aggression", "representation-quotas" and the like. Consequently, I'm not comfortable making sweeping conclusions about institutionalized racism/sexism, merely from quotas and fancy-new-age feminism terms that take male-female dynamics to extremes in order to justify wrong-doing.

ensignavenger 11y ago

To make your analogy really work, we would have to require women to vote for women directors and men to vote for men directors. But as another commenter noted, I question whether the interests of men and women are really all that divergent.