EU demands 40% of glass ceiling is broken for women on corporate boards. Without demanding 40 % coverage on the same concrete floors.

NutsLikeMelons · 2022-06-08T00:50:38+00:00

So a group of men can start a company from scratch, build it over years, hit the threshold of 250 employees and instantly have to put 40% of the board roles into female hands or face penalties. Nice. Another disincentive to innovation and expansion. Can’t wait to see what happens when companies with majority female boards have to hire men to meet the quota.

NeoNotNeo · 2022-06-08T00:59:39+00:00

There are industries such as construction where women make up 2 % of labor. But now they are 40 % of the board. How is this acceptable. We are entering a very unhealthy period in the west. One and only one ideology is doing this.

Beaniifart · 2022-06-08T02:24:14+00:00

Holy shit. They don't give a fuck about women being able to work the jobs men have, literally only the top level, highest paying jobs. Pretty much every manual labour or dangerous job is dominated by men regardless of pay, but guess they're turning their eye for those lmao.

Henry_Blair · 2022-06-08T06:32:12+00:00

There is no "glass ceiling". Women have not only an equal opportunity to join boards but are favored, because this pressure on companies has been going on for at least a decade. The only reasons are lack of suitability and lack of interest. Very few women are interested in sitting in boards, and out of the very few who do think of it, not many have the relevant track record. A glass ceiling means that given two equally suitable candidates, systematically the man will be chosen - this is not in any way the reality, but the exact opposite - because there are so few women both wanting to be in a board AND having the relevant experience, when two equally suitable options are considered THE WOMAN IS SYSTEMATICALLY PREFERRED. The exact OPPOSITE of "a glass ceiling". And the reason nobody objects to the ridiculous 40% EU-defined criterion is that there are no sanctions, and there are no sanctions because everybody knows you won't be able to find as much as 10% even if you were willing to castrate relevant candidates to call them "women". There are simply almost no women interested in this.

And by the way, there is no sense in feminism's obsession with boards. Board members are only advisors, they don't have much power or responsibility, it's mostly for choosing a CEO every few years, and seeing that the company is monitored financially. Many boards of small companies don't get paid, it's just being listed somewhere as "board member" and getting a call every few months to sign some recommendation letter for a grant or what not or get the company's CEO a meeting with some connections you have.

Feminists look at the car and think "wow it must be so powerful and full of status to be a board member" - nonsense, these people got their car from their regular job, not from sitting on some board of a biotech spin-off that barely pays the lab technician. It's their accumulated career outside the board (as an investor, or CEO, or a professor, or an elected official and so on) that makes them relevant for basically advising the management - it's a team of advisors, not of mighty rulers who control the world. Which is part of why women don't care about boards and don't want to join them - you give more than you get, in most cases.

Of course feminists are focused as always in a biased manner on the 1% of boards - those of gigantic corporations. But most boards are of small-medium companies and of early-stage spin-offs and you give more than you get in such boards which are the majority. To get 40% you'll need to convince women to want to give a little of their time just in order to contribute for the development of a small enterprise without a material benefit - please feminists, tell us how to make women do that?

Beaniifart · 2022-06-08T02:24:19+00:00

Holy shit. They don't give a fuck about women being able to work the jobs men have, literally only the top level, highest paying jobs. Pretty much every manual labour or dangerous job is dominated by men regardless of pay, but guess they're turning their eye for those lmao.

DouglasMilnes · 2022-06-08T11:18:17+00:00

A ceiling that doesn't exist cannot be broken.

CawlinAlcarz · 2022-06-08T13:20:10+00:00

Men in the UK, how's Brexit looking now?

autotldr · 2022-06-09T04:03:02+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)

The EU has agreed that companies will face mandatory quotas to ensure women have at least 40% of seats on corporate boards.

As well as the legally binding target, companies could also be fined for failing to recruit enough women to their non-executive boards and see board appointments cancelled for non-compliance with the law.

The European Commission made its first proposal for a 40% quota on women on boards in 2012, but the plan was blocked by big member states including Germany and the UK.In the UK, mandatory quotas were opposed by the then coalition Conservative-Liberal Democrat government, which preferred a voluntary approach led by Lord Mervyn Davies.

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TitanicPat · 2022-06-09T13:31:27+00:00

849,926,107 genders, until feminists want a large, unearned slice of something to themselves.

Title	EU demands 40% of glass ceiling is broken for women on corporate boards. Without demanding 40 % coverage on the same concrete floors.
Author	NeoNotNeo
Upvotes	135
Comments	34
Date	June 8, 2022 12:29 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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