Remove the glass ceiling or have it smashed

The Daily Telegraph ^ | October 15, 2009 | Sue Dunlevy

[myknowledge]

AUSTRALIAN companies should be given five years to increase the number of women sitting on their boards before government legislation forces them to do it.

Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick has outlined her vision to steer corporate Australia toward "the road to gender equality".

Just 8.3 per cent of board members in the nation's top 200 companies are women - the same number as two years ago.

Ms Broderick said yesterday it was time for radical action to change that. She wants Australia's corporate governance rules to be changed to require top companies to set three- and five-year targets to increase the number of women on their boards.

They would have to report annually to the stock exchange on their progress in meeting those targets. If that failed to improve the number of women on boards within five years the government should introduce quotas, she said.

[myknowledge]

Break the glass ceiling? NO WAY!

(I'm not sexist BTW, this is promoting feminist horse**** in one of the handful remaining bastions of male dominance.)

[MEGoody]

Forcing companies to hire based on their genitalia. Ridiculous.

[Dem Guard]

What is this a 30 year old story? Look around.............

[myknowledge]

Sexist feminism at its work.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Diversity should be the result of equality, not the goal.

[agere_contra]

Affirmative action = discrimination. There are laws against that in most of the free world.

It’s pretty obvious that Broderick wouldn’t have got her current job (”Discrimination Commissioner”) without being a woman. She is an affirmative-action hire.

[sionnsar]

Quotas rear their ugly heads again.