Hate to burst your bubbles, folks, but France recently learned the hard way what can happen when you put people in charge solely on the basis of gender: http://www.economist.com/node/16064321[]The nation passed a law stating that the boards of publicly-traded corporations must have a minimum number of female members to ensure “equal representation”. []Thing is, France didn’t have enough women with the type of education and/or work experience one would expect for such a post.[]So rather than try to compete to get the women on the boards, a lot of companies just took whatever warm bodies that they could find… a list that just so happened to include more than a few wives, mistresses, and girlfriends. []Instead of encouraging gender equality, all France did was encourage crony capitalism and “sleeping one’s way to the top”. []Let’s look at a person’s track record people, not their reproductive organs.
Hate to burst your bubbles, folks, but France recently learned the hard way what can happen when you put people in charge solely on the basis of gender: http://www.economist.com/node/16064321[]The nation passed a law stating that the boards of publicly-traded corporations must have a minimum number of female members to ensure “equal representation”. []Thing is, France didn’t have enough women with the type of education and/or work experience one would expect for such a post.[]So rather than try to compete to get the women on the boards, a lot of companies just took whatever warm bodies that they could find… a list that just so happened to include more than a few wives, mistresses, and girlfriends. []Instead of encouraging gender equality, all France did was encourage crony capitalism and “sleeping one’s way to the top”. []Let’s look at a person’s track record people, not their reproductive organs.