Germany agrees ‘historic’ mandatory boardroom quota for women(theguardian.com) |
Germany agrees ‘historic’ mandatory boardroom quota for women(theguardian.com) |
The average size of a board is 12 and the current percentage of women on boards is 12%
However for companies where the government sits on the board, the ratio is 30%
I guess some push is needed for this kind of change, as the system is somehow natually fit for status quo.
In a perfect world, gender in these matters wouldn't even be part of the discussion at all. These are intellectual, not physical demanding jobs, so the only discriminination should be for one's preparations and ideas anyway.
I expected more from my country, honestly.
They evaded the rules by making it a gender quota, so it would also apply to males if the situation would be reversed, the guardian produced fake news again. But to me these rules are still discrimination and arbitrary and could be applied to any intrinsic property or even belief systems.
Still, it also implicates that there is a fundamental difference between men and women.
> These are intellectual, not physical demanding jobs
The women in question faked her PhD and consequentially lost it, although I agree that it isn't a measurement of competence. Suggesting quotas is though. You cannot get authority by suing for your position, on the contrary.
You're right that it's an arbitrary change, but on the other hand, every change is arbitrary whem you want to modify an established system.
Of course the question here is if this is the morally correct way of doing things.
Personally, this all sounds weird to me: it's like enforcing a rule where, from now on, at least 25% of your workforce must be muslim. Why should one's religion be of any concern in all this?
Same thing for gender.
If the problem is that the positions are being filled in a shady or non-meritocratic way, that's the problem to address. But I'm not sure this is what it's been talked about here.
at least i think there's too few female network engineers.
It's interesting how people always claim there are too few women in high paying intellectual jobs, rather than low paying manual jobs. When have you ever heard that there are too few female miners, highway maintenance workers etc?