Sentences with phrase «of gender quota»

One of the measures suggested for remedying this inequality is the use of gender quotas for parliamentary candidates.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

Both methods involve setting quotas (or targets) to ensure a balance of factors such as gender, region and social class.

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..

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 →

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.

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.

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.

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.