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Gender Quotas in Business
posted by Brad on Thursday August 08, @07:37PM
from the Inequality dept.
Inequality The BBC News reports on a recent proposal in Norway that "would compel both state owned and listed private companies to appoint women to at least 40% of boardroom places could become law by 2005."

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The Economic Demise Of Norway (Score:2)
by frank h on Thursday August 08, @09:25PM EST (#1)
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Surely this will lead to depressed economic performance on the part of Norwegian companies. And I mean this as no slight to women. But there aren't enough qualified women to populate these positions, so they will be forced to offer these positions to unqualified women. Women in all countries are still making the choice to dedicate less of their lives to working outside the home.
Re:The Economic Demise Of Norway (Score:2)
by Thomas on Thursday August 08, @10:33PM EST (#3)
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Surely this will lead to depressed economic performance

I have this kinda creepy feeling that without war China, with all its good and bad, is gonna crush the rest of us.
Re:The Economic Demise Of Norway (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday August 09, @12:34AM EST (#5)
((("I have this kinda creepy feeling that without war china, with all its good and bad, is gonna crush the rest of us.")))

...You get that feeling, too...?

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Don't wake me until it's over (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday August 08, @10:14PM EST (#2)
First they wanted to be treated fair despite the fact they're women. Now they want to be treated unfair because of the fact they're women.

Why is it they never see sexism when it's in their favor?

  Forget this. Next time I have to deal with the government I'm asking to speak to a man. I don't want any incompetent women to mess up my life simply because their qualifications are that they're not a man.

Well. (Score:1)
by John Knouten on Thursday August 08, @11:06PM EST (#4)
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Maybe upper class Norwegian women will be even much more privilaged. But I doubt Norwegian men suffer discrimination anywehere near as much as men suffer in US.
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What if they say no? (Score:1)
by napnip on Friday August 09, @08:29AM EST (#6)
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So what if the privately owned businesses simply say no?

Of course, the answer is already in the article. "Norway's corporate elite is up in arms over plans to FORCE the appointment of more women to companies' boards of directors." Notice the word "force".

Oh God, how I sometimes wish Atlas would shrug!

"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins." -John Galt
Re:What if they say no? (Score:1)
by Adam H (adam@mensactivism.org) on Friday August 09, @09:17AM EST (#7)
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While they're at it, why don't make women 40% of the prison population as well?

Do it for the equality! :)
I know why they are doing this (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday August 09, @09:25AM EST (#8)
A simpl,e reason, so obvious most people couldn't see it.

Without a mandated presence, most woman couldn't achieve such a position on their own merits.

I agree with the poster who asks to see a man, because the best man for the job - is a man.
THERE'S A STORM A COMMIN' (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Friday August 09, @07:01PM EST (#9)
Heed my words you radical feminist you have sowed the wind, but you will reap the whirlwind. There’s a storm of righteous law a commin’ on your evil laws and it can’t come too soon. May God bless this end himself, and may good men and women everywhere join together to see it through.
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Re:THERE'S A STORM A COMMIN' (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Monday August 19, @02:20AM EST (#10)
((("There's a storm a commin'")))

I don't think that would scare the Marx-fems.
Y' know why?
Because they don't even know enough to come in from outta the RAIN.

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