We should be cautious of not falling into practices of tokenism ---- putting women in a panel discussion to fill
a gender quota ---- but rather engage women and men into the debate in a meaningful manner.
By Claire McGing, John and Pat Hume and Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences scholar, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth Under planned new legislation, political parties will have to implement
a gender quota for future general election... Continue reading →
I am also a woman in politics, in a political party without
a gender quota or all - woman shortlist in sight, yet one third of our cohort going to Brussels in May will be women, and that's not factoring in our current popularity in the polls.
It governs itself, at every level, according to a race - and -
gender quota system that ensures politically and theologically correct outcomes.
A preferable approach would be, for example, to have
gender quotas for the recruitment process for board candidates.
Other developed countries have made a lot more progress, particularly those that have instituted
gender quotas.
She breaks down what academic research says about the effect on politics in countries where
gender quotas have been implemented.
I am trying to figure out a way to better phrase your question, possibly «How are
gender quotas justified by lawmakers given that they appear to violate the Equal Opportunity Principle?»
Mandatory
gender quotas are one way to ensure equal opportunity in areas where on gender is underrepresented.
«Quotas for Men: Reframing
Gender Quotas as a Means of Improving Representation for All.»
Scott Speight took issue with Caroline Crampton's blog on the possibility of introducing
gender quotas for UK boardrooms Up with women, down with «golden skirts».
Speaking at a debate about
gender quotas at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Bloom said that professional women were being promoted beyond their abilities.
Ideas proposed by others include reducing the voting age to 16 and introducing electronic voting, increased state funding of parties aligned to a cap in donations and spending,
gender quotas for parliamentarians and a comprehensive register of lobbyists.
One of the measures suggested for remedying this inequality is the use of
gender quotas for parliamentary candidates.
She is among those who believe that
gender quotas would help to counteract unconscious biases.
The role of gender in employment features also in Feminist Law Professors this week in a post about
gender quotas, as well as the rape shield rule's application to social media sites.
Not exact matches
What sort of impact will the Trudeau government's
gender - balanced cabinet have on Canadian business leaders, most of whom have been reluctant to embrace the idea of setting
quotas and targets for female representation?
Research from Australia also supports
quotas as a way to achieve significant results and to seize the benefits of
gender diversity in decision making.
«I believe organisations need to set targets related to
gender diversity, as opposed to
quotas which have more negative connotations linked to positive discrimination.
Respondents were recruited from the AskingCanadians national panel to
quotas representing primary household shoppers by region,
gender and age to reflect the national profile.
The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance by a lay majority, dominated under a
quota system by minorities and feminists, in which theologians were marginalized and issues of race and
gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.
There is no acknowledgment that, in the view of many, a discrimination - free society is one that does not discriminate for or against people on the basis of their race or
gender, as
quotas certainly do.
Maximum
quotas and slight weights were used for
gender, region, age, ethnicity, education, and religious preference to more accurately reflect the population.
International experts from UN Women and NGOs like Promundo are doing important work to change harmful norms of
gender and masculinity through parental leave and fathers»
quotas policies and education programs for adolescent boys, respectively.
Rather than undermining the case for
gender or ethnic
quotas, the case for youth
quotas can thus be made to reinforce it and take it further.
Both methods involve setting
quotas (or targets) to ensure a balance of factors such as
gender, region and social class.
For instance, 40 %
quotas on all electoral lists, harsher punishments for men in cases of domestic violence, special judicial and economic assistance for women who are victims of
gender violence, a requirement for corporations with more than 250 employees to have their own equality plan aimed at eliminating discrimination against women, etc..
Allon, the publisher of Manhattan Media, was bluntest, saying «this country, unfortunately, seems to be going away from things like
quotas,» but all six were clear that they're in favor of paying greater attention to race and
gender when hiring administration officials and awarding city contracts.
This does not mean that we should have
quotas or targets for recruiting «northern manufacturers» etc but we should look beyond
gender and ethnicity in discussion of diversity.
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, who is a known activist of
gender equality, said that the time has come for political parties to give sizeable
quotas to women to contest unopposed on their tickets, stressing that each political party can start with 30 seats for women.
The data seem to show that
gender - based
quotas work: Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where the share of female board members was 49 %, 46 %, and 45 %, respectively, have such policies.
Successful integration starts with judging service members as individuals, using validated
gender - neutral occupational and strength standards, rejecting
quotas and ceilings, and the fair application of traditional methods of maintaining order, morale and discipline.
For the general population sample,
quotas were set by
gender, age and region.
My goal was not to fill
quotas but simply to get a sense of how well represented my
gender was in the art world.
Among the concerns voiced in the article are worries about a «
quota system», having «the best people for the job», «too much emphasis on
gender» and potentially «breed [ing] contempt for the judiciary.»
Recognising the potential and challenges of the law promoting
gender - equality, Charlotte is often invited to speak and write about
gender - based legal reforms in areas such as FGM, forced marriage, prostitution, rape and
quotas for women.
Tracy A. Thomas, a professor at the University of Akron School of Law, says
gender - equity
quotas could help, too.
If you force a business to register a certain
quota of people of various ethnicity, sexuality and
gender then you are not tackling the cause of the problem.