Britain needs gender equality quotas now, Fawcett Society says - Guardian article

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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/23/gender-equality-quotas-fawcett-society-britain?

“The figures show that women make up only 6% of FTSE 100 chief executives, 16.7% of supreme court justices, 17.6% of national newspaper editors, 26% of cabinet ministers and 32% of MPs.”

“Figures from the Fawcett Society also show that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) and disabled women are further excluded from decision-making positions. BAME women are 7% of the UK population, but just 4% of MPs and there are no BAME female chief executives of companies in the FTSE 100. There are only two women MPs in the Commons who identify as disabled.”

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What's the point in bothering? They'll just let men in anyway. The identifiers.

identify as disabled

for fucks sake. I expect someone with a debilitating disability would very much like to not identify as disabled. I love the implication that it's optional.

And yeah, what's the point of fighting for gender equality? Zero, zilch, nada. It will just be taken up by the kind of people who use parent and child parking spaces when their kids are 12.

I think in previous discussions it has been confirmed that identify as disabled is the correct term I think it's to do with how hard it is to get a diagnosis, so before you're diagnosed with abc you have to identify as having it. I think. Not am expert.

Now that Labour have wrecked all women shortlists and you see similar everywhere. you do indeed wonder what the point is.
Already one of the richest female bankers is actually a man most of the time.

ophelia

Thats what i heard re identifying as disabled

And same with the race, which makes sense to me

But both could be done by people not acting in good faith...which is where the problems lie