UK: Vince Cable calls on leading companies to appoint more women as directors

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2014-01-19 15:51

Article here. Excerpt:

'The business secretary, Vince Cable, has called on Britain's biggest companies to increase the number of women on their boards this year.

In a letter to the chairmen of the top 350 listed companies, Cable urged them each to appoint an extra female director in 2014 and to let two senior female managers serve as non-executive directors at another company.

The letter, written jointly with Lord Davies, who champions women on boards, also called on chairmen to publish targets for female representation at board and senior management level and to say how they would achieve them.

In 2011, Davies, the former trade minister and boss of Standard Chartered bank, set FTSE 100 companies the goal of increasing female board membership to 25% by 2015, from 12.5% at the time. The next biggest 250 companies were also encouraged to employ more female directors.'

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... more women to be on garbage collection crews or bomb disposal teams?

Oh yeah, it's b/c men are clearly better-suited for those jobs and women for mgt/leadership roles. Heck, w/ men having DOMINATED those positions for so long, it's a wonder humanity's gotten as far as it has! Quick, get the "right kind of ppl" (i.e., women) into as many of those positions as possible, fast! Argggh!!

Is it me or has anyone noticed that feminism sprung up as it has only after men all but completed work on creating advanced civilization? Strikes me that there's a good bit of swooping-in-after-the-kill being done, and feminists of course only want the choicest parts of the kill. The filet areas they'll take; the chewy hide, they're fine leaving that to the men -- insofar as it serves feminists' purposes -- such as getting their garbage picked up.

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Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2014-01-19 18:36