UK: Harriet "Harperson" Harman: I'll put women in charge of banks

Submitted by Broadsword on Thu, 2009-05-07 16:47

Article here. Excerpt:

'Harriet Harman wants to use controversial new equality laws to pack the boards of nationalised banks with women.Labour's deputy leader is determined to boost the proportion of female workers in the financial sector and end what she calls 'pay discrimination' in the City.
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She said last night that legal powers championed by her to discriminate in favour of minorities could help achieve her ambition. Some women MPs have claimed that the 'testosterone-fuelled' financial meltdown could have been avoided if there had been more women in decision-making positions.
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'Sometimes we have to take scary methods in order to achieve worthwhile results,' she told a mainly female audience.

'It is about saying, "because you are a woman I'm going to put you in this promotion".'

She claimed that because women generally remained homemakers, the recession caused them to fear not only for their own jobs, but also for their husband's, for their children's futures, and for elderly relatives.

'We have to worry more than men and we are definitely worrying more about the recession than men are,' she said."'

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I would just like to take the time to say that anybody who blames the recession on men does not understand the real reason behind it. It turns out that the wealthiest handful of people in this world control the entire money supply. They can engineer a recession whenever they want by producing way too much money, and forcing inflation.

I would also like to say that this recession has affected men way more than women. They keep telling us 80% of the jobs lost were held by men. Yet somehow they keep finding ways to make women the victim in all of this. Whatever...

Evan AKA X-TRNL
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Submitted by xtrnl on Fri, 2009-05-08 16:12