COALITION'S NEW PUBLIC BODY ASPIRATION HEAPS ON MORE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MEN

As each day goes by the Coalition Government is exhibiting more and more of the Marxist feminist anti-male traits of its predecessor. As set out here it is backtracking on equality issues all the time extinguishing any hope that men will no longer be treated as second class citizens.

Last week, the Coalition Government announced that it had aspirations on the following:

1. By the end of the Parliament at least half of all new appointees being made to the boards of public bodies will be women

2.Business Minister Edward Davey and Lynne Featherstone, Minister for Equalities, have today announced that Lord Davies of Abersoch will develop a business strategy to increase the number of women on the boards of listed companies in the UK (covered here and here).

As this site and any one who believes in equality knows, positive action means negative action for someone else and that someone else is always men. This is what makes the Equality Act anything but about equality, when employers can discriminate against people because of their gender (the powers not yet taken by the Governement - interesting)

This of course is no difference to what Harman, Flint, the Fawcett Society and the Equalities Commission wanted before the election. Plus Ca Change.

The Government has tried to couch the policy on public bodies by stating that it will be based on merit. But we all know what happens in the real world of politics behind closed doors.

Good men will be weeded out at the selection process, subtle pressure put on public bodies to meet their target, even non-subtle targets (you'll lose funding if you don't appoint a woman), retiring men being replaced automatically by a women and of course there will be the full blown pressure put on public bodies to toe the line. Now this aspiration has been made, Harman will not let them forget it.

This is not an aspiration, in the real body politic world this is a hard and fast policy and woe betide any public body not meeting it. Because in reality if you have an aspiration you will do all you can to achieve it and if it looks like it is not working you will move heaven and earth to do so, and blow the issues of meritocracy or legality. Has any Government not wanted to meet an aspiration and gear policy both overtly and covertly towards meeting it? Never.

This aspiration is a policy and it is the end of meritocracy. All that matters is your gender, your ability is irrelevant.

Posted by Skimmington

Media Coverage - Telegraph, Independent, Independent

Comments

[John Kimble]

One has to wonder where idiocy like this will end.

Once quotas etc are introduced for women then it's only natural to introduce something similar for ethnic minorities, homosexuals the disabled, working class, Welsh people, those with ginger hair etc. I mean, most middle class white women have benefited from the privilege of their ancestors for years, therefore positive discrimination in favour of ethnic minorities and the working classes is undoubtedly far more justified than what is proposed for females (though of course still absolutely 100% wrong and hugely damaging to society)

The point is that once you've fulfilled every single quota there won't actually be any room left for your average bloke - the very same people our education system is currently failing quite spectacularly anyway.

[Jon]

Presumably these idiots are also determined to destroy the 'gender prison gap', too?

Sad, pathetic, cowardly politicians.

[Groan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1302096/Men-best-bosses-Women-just-moody.html#. Well kind of ironic really.