The Project covered a story about the ‘glass ceiling’ women
have to break through to climb the corporate ladder.
Natasha Stott-Despoja was on. She claimed that we’ve had years to deal with this
“problem”. Really? Problem? We’re still forgetting that most
working women have no intent on climbing the corporate ladder. Rather they are very willing in
sacrificing some career advancement to have children. It’s only the vocal minority that see this as a “problem”.
Some bozo was calling for quotas of women working in public
and private sectors. As if the
current ‘targets’ aren’t bad enough.
Quotas and targets defeat the purpose for which they were intended. Instead of gaining a job on merit,
which is what all the complainers say they want, they will now get it
potentially on tokenism. Or there
may be the continual speculation of whether it was gained on tokenism. This would create immense pressure to
perform.
Feminists want a level playing field. But there never will be. Men and women are different. Why is that people continually need to
be told that? We have different
aptitudes. Men have strengths in
leadership. Women have strengths
in nurturing. This isn’t to say
that women can’t lead and men aren’t nurturing. It’s a generalisation, because it’s generally true.
A case study from Norway was shown and it featured some
interesting consequences from its policy of quotas. The policy was bound to all publicly listed companies. So they found that many publicly listed
companies got out of the stock exchange.
They also found that there were boards with women directors but it turned
out to be the same women on multiple boards. So no net gain for women in Norway.
People need to really think about what they aim to achieve
by such policies and look at their potential side effects.
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We should look with great trepedation upon those who see a circumstance in society that does not suit their ideology and seek to alter it by forcing everyone to comply. Such people are making a direct attack on freedom and need to be roundly and loudly condemned.
These quotas are not just an undesirable and ineffective public policy initiative, they are incidences of state-imposed tyranny. There is everything wrong with them, and nothing right. They must be vigorously opposed.
If there is some unethical impediment to women succeeding in business, it must be identified and supported with evidence. It may be appropriate for governments to take some action to address it, but it is unlikely. If a woman discovers that she is blocked from succeeding, she should seek another path, just like any man would.
LB
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