Sentences with phrase «gender quotas in»

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Research from Australia also supports quotas as a way to achieve significant results and to seize the benefits of gender diversity in decision making.

She breaks down what academic research says about the effect on politics in countries where gender quotas have been implemented.

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.

Mandatory gender quotas are one way to ensure equal opportunity in areas where on gender is underrepresented.

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.

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..

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.

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.

My goal was not to fill quotas but simply to get a sense of how well represented my gender was in the art world.

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.

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.

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.