Female quota
I have previously enjoyed a portion of quotas, and add this a piece to this puzzle
As hetrosexuell, white man who is married and has children, and are in the age group 40-50, I expected to have all the benefits you can get and quotas can in practice only disadvantage to me. There is a clear risk that I am expected to speak in their own cause if I say any negative about affirmative action. All arguments that it is unfair to all who qualify on your own skills to become suspicious that inferior performance in which quotas were a prerequisite for the position, the risk of falling flat and assumed that they are pronounced in their own cause, to "avoid competition" from structurally disadvantaged Women.
Let me start with an opinion, I think one can reasonably conclude that women are structurally disadvantaged. Quotas of "fairness" is a position I can understand, and to some extent sympathize with, but the effects on the women who actually qualify on its own merits makes it actually destroys more than it does good. You win a short-term advantage that is for long-term damage. Man pees in his pants to keep warm!
Let us then make a fair argument in the debate and further from the arguments.
One argument that I agree with you; A team works best if you have many views, insights and skills represented. This is where I was going to dig further today.
What shapes us as individuals is traditionally defined by the terms heredity and environment.
Gender is proven heritage - of that can not be doubted, but it will be interesting then the next logical step:
- Which approaches, perspectives and skills is through inheritance related to women in their characteristics as women?
- If there are properties that are attributable to the environment, there is no reason to look at a woman because then of course one might as well have acquired them, right?
With my old militant feminist colleague, I had on some occasions, discussions of male and female abilities. She categorically rejecting empathy and simultaneous capacity of female talents, and that all research revealed that there were no genetic differences that could explain this but it was just a result of the environment combined with prejudice. I do not know if she has the right and have no access to search the research in this area, but let's assume she's right - it beats the legs of the argument that quotas would lead to a diversity of approaches and skills. If she is entitled to be hard to find an empathetic person - not just a woman. This does of course not a woman, but it need not necessarily be a woman.
The conclusion is the argument of the quota is to achieve a sound diversity, is actually inconsistent with the position that we are genetically equal and that gender differences are merely a social construction. Either the genetic characteristics related to sex or the diversity argument just found out - both of which can not logically apply at the same time!










































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