The day after the EOC failed to push any comments on the Ofsted report (Link) (Link) that boys need separate school classes to close the results gap with girls, it cannot get enough of its report on the alleged glass ceiling in UK plc.
It's report (Link) Sex and Power: Who Runs Britain? complains that because females are under-represented in certain walks of life such as the judiciary, parliament and FTSE-100 directorships then there must be a glass ceiling of sexual discrimination. They allege that 6,000 women are missing from positions they should have.
The EOC are only think about society in black and white terms. They ignore that some women will choose to want a career break (normally to look after their children) and therefore will lose some time/experience at the workplace which means a man (or a woman with no children) will likely to advance in a company quicker. In addition, why do the EOC automatically think that as many women as men want to be politicians, judges, FTSE-100 directors. They may do, of course, but the EOC are not interested in finding out if it is true, they just make sweeping generalisations.
The good thing is that the EOC receive more of a challenge to their sweeping generalisations nowadays with their explicit notion that UK society is anti-women and men are to blame. BBC Breakfast this morning ran a debate asking viewers to state whether they thought there was a glass ceiling or whether it was down to a woman's lifestyle choice. This is the first time that the latter counter argument has been put out by the BBC, normally the BBC give as much airtime to the EOC to rant their anti-men, pro-women propaganda. It was spoilt by their web-site which ignores the lifestyle issue when asking for comments.(Link)
The reason I raise the subject here is not to deny that more women should be in these positions of power. I have no real view one way or other, as I cannot pre-judge what motivates individuals who happen to be women. My concern is that the EOC want more and more positive action and they raise this in the debate. Positive action means negative action for someone else, that is, as ever, men.
The outcome of the EOC campaign would be that less qualified/experienced women will be able to leapfrog more qualified/experienced men into positions of power to meet a gender quota. This is anti-male, anti-freedom, anti-meritocratic, anti-equality and of course, sexual discrimination.
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Posted by: Roderick | Saturday, 28 March 2009 at 16:30