Instead of pretending that corporations are interested in obtaining a gender balance for its own sake at any level of their workforce – and imposing quotas in support of such pretence…

Why not reverse the imposition and impose a quota system for gender-balanced parenting?

It would target those most directly affected. Though to be fair, it may require mandatory DNA testing to establish paternity, but in the interests of gender neutrality we could pretend it's to also establish maternity.

A totally equitable system of 50-50 timeshare parenting.

Not to mention the fortune governments would save on funding child care – nor the reduced congestion without all those urban SUVs getting the little mites to and from kiddie prison or Gymbaroo.

Plus, with having to spend all that quality time with both their parents children receive an early and valuable life-lesson that you can't always get what you want.

AS a white heterosexual Christian male I think that I have become part of a new underclass that is automatically disadvantaged in any job application. Milton Friedman was highly critical of any legislation that divided people into winners and losers and this legislation is as bad as anyone can imagine. I am like a Jew in Nazi Germany or a black in Alabama (in the 1950s). Can't anyone see the fundamental injustice in this sort of legislation and the harm that it does to so many innocent people? They say that we should learn from history. Well we never learn from history.

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The record of women promoted is a dire warning- for example, Lawrence(WA), Kirner (Vic), Keneally (NSW)and Bligh (Q). And feminists, please do not argue they were handed a poisoned chalice, that condemns them as both stupid and incompetent.
And shareholders should fear the consequences for thir companies. Jackson would have destroyed Qantas, Lend Lease, previously one of the most successful companies, was brought to its knees, and Meredith Hellicar has inflicted eternal shame on James Hardie. Gail Kelly of Westpac seems to be one of the few exceptions.

Wm Trevor I think you are missing one thing here. The paternal instinct has only infested a small number of men, where as most women are sufferers.

About 90% of the men I know could quite happily go through life childless, & it could easily be over 50% who would prefer to do so.

It is almost amusing when she starts bitching that he doesn't do enough of the parenting, when he never wanted kids, & only went along with her desperate desire to breed in the first place, because he's a nice guy.

Start putting even more demands on these blokes, & you'll find they become less compliant in helping her achieve her goal.
You should remember the definition of pregnancy, to many blokes is "something taken seriously, that was only poked in fun". Make the consequences too onerous, & the ladies may find they run out of suckers.

It really does add insult to injury when after having a couple of years out of the work force, [& got way out of date], funded by some guy, she expects to come back as an equal of the now more skilled & experienced blokes.

thanks Babette, whilst I certainly think mysogyny is a more widespread problem than mysandry, I do think that both need to be dealt at the same time as from what I have seen, one is a cause for the other in many cirumstances.

"The paternal instinct has only infested a small number of men, where as most women are sufferers."

Can it not then be said that the business instinct has only infested a small number of women, and that's why women aren't in the top spots? Or is it sexist when done to women and no to men?