Why Do Women Need To Be Given A Leg Up?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43065660
Surely if they are good enough they will attain these positions naturally.

[naomi24]

sp, // What do you do when you can do the job, but you see other less capable men promoted ahead of you?

What do you do, when you find out that because you’re a woman, those above you are loathe to promote you because you might go off and have a baby?//

Perhaps the reason I’m passed over is because I might go off and have a baby, in which case I would understand it. I would rather employ a man who's looking for a career and spend time and money training him than a young woman who might go off and have a baby. Companies aren’t charities and they’re not social services. They do what they feel is right for business.

[ummmm]

And there's no getting away from that fact. Maternity leave in large organizations tends to be ok, but not for small businesses.

[douglas9401]

I was going to mention the calibre of woman selected for election to the aspirationally gender balanced Scottish parliament and the obvious lack of suitability for their prospective post, then I remembered the men.

[youngmafbog]

Something fishy there Douglas.

[dave50]

Any attempts using positive discrimination to try and level the playing field regarding race, sex or whatever just leads to resentment and the obvious suspicion that anyone promoted has achieved this because they are a woman or because they are black or whatever, not because they are best for the job.