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Is it time for a gender bailout? Posted by Liz
Perhaps what ails us in the U.S. can't be solved by any amount of financial bailouts. Perhaps what we really need is a gender bailout. Instead of throwing money at our problems, why not women? Both Norway and Spain have mandated gender equity on corporate boards. Should the U.S. government demand the same?
Let’s review the numbers:
Women hold only 15 percent of all board seats in this country.
A new report from the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) titled "Women in Fund Management" shows women are under-represented in fund management positions. Ten percent of all mutual fund managers are women and only three percent of the trillions of dollars invested in hedge funds are controlled by women.
There are similarly low percentages when you look at the number of female CEOs in the Fortune 500, female partners in law firms, women in newsrooms, women in Congress, etc. etc.
Yet,
Fifty-one percent of the country's population is female.
Women make 85 percent of all consumer purchasing decisions in this country.
Almost half of all workers in the U.S., and one third of all business owners, are women.
Studies continue to demonstrate women are strong assets in business. There is the data from Catalyst that shows companies with the highest number of women in top management experience better financial performance than companies with fewer women at the top. And a little know study from two Boston College professors shows that Wall Street responds more favorably to financial moves made by companies with a female CFO.
So how about a gender bailout? Some might see it as affirmative action. Others might view it as simple equality – half of the population holding half of the power. Or, it might be the kind of decisive leadership we need to help bail us out of our current economic situation.
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But unless and until women support women we cannot and will not have it. Great strides are made when people "take" not when they wait to be given. I don't want affirmative action with anything. I want the best of the best no matter what the color of their skin, religion, or lack of, or their gender. What's wrong with the gender bias in this country seems to me to point out quite clearly what is wrong with us.
Whether you were in favor of Hillary Clinton's candidacy or not, the sight and sound of so many women willing to trash-talk her while slobbering over Obama is an education in why women fail.
Sarah Palin is another education in the descension of woman into the slime. Feminists don't do that. And yet many who are "defined" or "touted" as voice of the feminist movement are as guilty or guiltier than men of attacking and demeaning women.
If that doesn't change, nothing else can. Or so it seems to me.
A Dishonest/Biased Media Is A Crime Against Democracy!
I Agree..Besides Her Intelligence and sincere Dedication..HILLARY has CLASS..When you think of How hillary has handled the Circumstances in Her Life...She has Lived and Lead by EXAMPLE...Thats a True Role Model..and She Earned my Admiration and RESPECT for Her Leadership and Ability and thats why I was a Hillary supporter and delegate..
We are Blesssed to Have TWO Great Women Senators in the State of Washington...
Lion
I hope your senators are supported even when they may vote against some folks opinions. Checking out support by gender is an eye-opener. Many times a woman has more male support than female simply because so many females work hardest at tearing down those of their own gender.
Our society has traditionally taught women to consider other women her rivals for getting higher up on the pile. It is heartening that now some women have cast that training aside and actively support other women sometimes by even going that extra mile with them.
Most have identified with their captors/masters and are content to be given a perk here and there. They seem to be the ones who see eon-long political tid bits as progress and call the women's equality efforts, feminism. That word by its very nature means that they would never revolt - ladies just don't do that sort of thing.
Someone once wrote that the problem is that women have never been getto-ized. Enough of them have abandomed their self respect to promises and social position by hitching themselves to the paternal tradition wagon. They do not want to make an effort or make waves - that is one big reason why the Bot got elected - too many people of both genders want to be taken care of.
And soon it looks as if they will get it cradle to grave - a lifetime of time spent in a doctor's office getting free chemicals to further poison their bodies and souls. Does no one ever read the contr-indications on their pill bottle?
At least in terms of equal opportunities. Everyone should have an equal chance at anything they want to do. The idea of bailouts and affirmative action are repugnant because what would really help is the tearing down of barriers and an elimination of bias and prejudice.
Yes, tearing down barriers and elminating bias and prejudices would be just dandy but gender bias is firmly dug into our culture. Like crime, there must be a threat of punishment before anything changes.
Universities talked about equality for years but it wasn't until the threat of their funds being shut off that they did anything about it. And then they came to it kicking and screaming. I know, I was there.
I rather think the author of the piece was putting us on a bit suggesting bailouts - just trying to make a point perhaps. Still affirmative action, if you were a woman back in the day, made a college education possible and a chance at a job that was not teaching or nursing.
And, ya know, it was pure pleasure not to be told, "you don't need an education, get married. You shouldn't be taking jobs away from men supporting their families" and other sweet nothings.