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The Norwegian ‘big stick’: women on boards : Comments

By Kellie Tranter, published 20/6/2008

Making sure women are represented on public limited company boards is not reverse discrimination in favour of females.

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Women can be on boards.

Governments can also withdraw funding from organizations that have minimal or no representation of men, or exclude men because they are male.

Governments can withdraw funding from teachers training colleges that have less than say 40% male trainee teachers (and on average teachers training colleges have about 20% male trainee teachers).

Governments can withdraw funding from universities that do not equally advertise their courses for male and female students.

Governments can withdraw all funding from universities that do not have equal numbers of men and women on their equity committees.

No political party should receive any taxpayer funding if they do not have a policy for men as well as women.

Government spending on men and women should also be equal, and a major investigation be held into the obvious gender biases in both the family law courts and the normal legal courts.

Governments can also introduce gender vilification legislation to remove feminists from society that denigrate the male gender (as a big stick).

The list can continue.
Posted by HRS, Friday, 20 June 2008 8:39:41 AM
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Has there ever been a more intolerant and self-deluded group than feminists? I especially love this line:

"The legislation attracted extensive and vociferous criticism from business, just like children throwing tantrums when forced to do something they don't want to do."

So if arguing for policies you prefer and resisting ones you object to are the hallmarks of a child - what does that make you Kellie? The most spoilt brat in Australia?
Posted by Duncan73, Friday, 20 June 2008 9:52:15 AM
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What is wrong with women that they need Governments to enact laws to get them into positions? Why do companies have to be bullied into having a certain percentage of women on their management boards?

Has it something to do with this author, Kellie Tranter, who thinks it’s OK for governments to ‘punish’ naughty companies who don’t employ women, just because they are women, and then complains when the companies behave “…just like children throwing tantrums when forced to do something they don’t want to do”?

Come on girls. Stick up for yourselves. Or are you really so incompetent that you can’t get jobs without preferential treatment by thuggish governments interfering with firms’ hiring processes?
Posted by Mr. Right, Friday, 20 June 2008 10:34:52 AM
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I hope any women on Boards prove to be more competent than the pathetic performance of most of our women judges in this nation.
Posted by runner, Friday, 20 June 2008 11:49:04 AM
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This is the destructiveness i'm talking about with feminism, that lies at the rotten core. It's absolutely outrageous that someone can make such a contradictory statement and have it pass for an intellectual argument or debate (let alone make a law). Feminists of course do not care what is a rational argument no matter how intelligent they are.

I've said before they are working away at our government behind the scenes (much like the religious) and here is evidence of it. In Australia we have a discriminatory Federal Office for Women and Federal Minister for Women's Interests. Both must be abolished. Or the word People inserted to replace "Women". Or a Office for Men and Federal Minister for Men's Interests has to be created.
Posted by Steel, Friday, 20 June 2008 2:43:06 PM
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Dadgum femin-eests. Only board a woman should be on is the one that goes with the iron.
Posted by Ford Prefect, Friday, 20 June 2008 2:46:27 PM
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