The debate of the fairness and efficacy of quota systems heated up this week after German legislators have passed a law requiring the top 100 companies to allot at least 30 percent of the seats on their boards to women within the next two years. The bill also mandated increased in women in upper level positions for some 3,500 companies. The companies could face sanctions if they cannot find enough women to fill the quota.
I have long been a critic of quota systems and this is no exception. While I certainly agree with the motivation behind the law, the emphasis of regulations should be to tear down barriers to women — not to force hiring based on gender. I am a firm believer that the market works against discriminatory values and practices. Women have made amazing strides in business and politics, as vividly shown by the leadership of Germany by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
There is clearly an underrepresentation of women on these boards. However, the way to erase that differential is to guarantee opportunities for women and to combat discriminatory practices in my view.
What do you think?
Source: NBC
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/10/harvard-law-school-will-now-hide-gpas-or-at-least-force-employers-to-buy-a-calculator/
Nick
Can I have a double wide in the desert, somewhere, way away?
He’s gone from Stage 3 to Stage 4 BDS. Palliative care is all that’s left.
Nick
Well if you had take Bush you would have gotten neither. A vacuous straw man at best.
Nick
I beg to differ. Read up on it.
Dems are fixated on book smarts. That’s because they own the education industry. There are all types of intelligence and skills. I’ll take a person w/ street and people smarts over book smarts for just about any job.
For chrissake, Obama is a very intelligent, eloquent, college professor. So was Woodrow Wilson. They were/are both horrible Presidents.
Jim22
You and David are either in cahoots in taking the obviously indefensible position and asking the same questions over and over again just for the fun of it or, well the alternative is sad. I will give the two of you the benefit of the doubt and take it as playful jibbing.
I brought up my kid to illustrate that Magna Cum Laude, etc is not equal school to school. An average kid in a low level school will be labeled higher than an average kid in a high level school. That you are interested in my kid was never the point. You jump at anything.
Now if Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard and was President of the Harvard Law Review then I would label him intelligent. That is my position. Yes Obama’s transcripts are privileged information and as with almost every other politician, not for human consumption. The measure of the man is his accomplishments, a series of accomplishments, pretty much without the silver spoon routine. Bush measures wanting well below capable on his own merits. Obama measures well above capable, primarily due to his own merits, regardless of one’s political bent.
On this topic of intelligence, you bring in Clinton. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, also single parented, no family money and connections. You are the one bringing in grades. I have focused on accomplishments. As regards Bush and your last statement you are beginning to unravel.
Elaine, Isaac brings up intelligence and provides no evidence of President Obama having any except how he feels. I ask for evidence and no one can give it. Isaac then turns and talks about his kid. I really don’t care about how his kid is doing in school. He’s deflecting because he knows he doesn’t have a clue about President Obama’s transcript. No one does, That’s the point that he fails to recognize. He then falls to the “Blame Bush” strategy (Becuase history doesn’t include what President Clinton did) which really shows his true colors, hatred and envy.
The funny part is, is that isaac only seems to think grades make a good president.
Also, if he really believes that Bush was lower in intelligence than he should celebrate him getting into the presidency since that is the quota system working at its best.
The Kennedys graduated Magma Cum Corruption from Hawvad.
So what?
Nobama registered for high school as an “Indonesian citizen” in Indonesia. His statue in Indonesia was torn down – who would do that?
The Law of Nations, 1760, defined “natural born citizen” as having parents (2) plural who were citizens at the candidate’s birth.
Barry is the son of a foreign citizen.
The Law of Nations was THEE legal reference of the era and kept close to the Founders and Framers as they wrote the Preamble and Constitution.
Washington, et al., spoke French as did the very Swiss Vattel. French was the language of Britain until 1100 and the legal language of Britain until the mid 19th century.
The Jay/Washington letter raised, increased and enhanced the requirement for president from “citizen” to “natural born citizen” as a “strong check” to foreign allegiances by the commander-in-chief.
Nobama is NOT eligible and is NOT a “natural born citizen” and it is completely disingenuous to deny the Constitutional use of the phrase and the requirement for two citizen-parents.
You can take the Truth out of the Constitution but
You can’t take the Constitution out of the Truth.
Barry Soetoro is distinctly and inarguably ineligible for the office.
Jim,
You asked Isaac how he knew about Obama’s academic record. I posted a point of information about Obama’s having graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School. No need to get so snippy. Sheesh!
Jim22
‘Based on how he has done as President…’
Compare the levels of intelligence between Bush, who created through arrogant incompetence the mess and Obama who having inherited the worst mess since the Great Depression has all but stopped the slide and turned it well around and into the wind. You may have your ideology and may not like Obama, but he is light years ahead of Bush and any of the GOP prospects.
If you really want to understand how weak your position is, try for a moment, but no longer it might be scary, to imagine if McCain and Pallin had got in, or if Romney had got in.
Jim22
Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review and got in on his Columbia grades and GMAT
Bush was captain of the Cheer Leaders and got into Yale and Harvard because of his Dad.
Obama, intelligent. Bush not so intelligent.
Jim22
The issue of grades is a specific point brought in by you. My focus was on abilities and privilege versus abilities and adjustments to privilege such as quotas, Affirmative Action, scholarships, etc. So far Obama’s grades at the universities he attended: Occidental, Columbia, Harvard are not available. However I found that he had a B+ average at Occidental, which was early undergraduate where he admits to being somewhat lackluster. He is said to have achieved a 3.7 GPA at Columbia which is not outstanding but not shabby either. My son achieved a 3.8 from his high school which is ranked in the top five public high schools in Florida and graduated in the top 30% or Cum Laude. In any other high school in Florida he would have been in the top 10% to 15% and have graduated Magna Cum Laude or perhaps Summa Cum Laude. Our son is an average kid. The determining factor was the levels of the schools.
Obama was President of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated from Harvard Law School. Bush was captain of the cheer leaders at Yale and a member of the Skull and Bones Society. Bush’s SAT scores would not have admitted him to a state school let alone Yale. Bush had several NO PASSES that he took again, courses he failed the first time around. Bush would never have made it into the MBA program at Harvard without his Dad’s influence. Bush failed at his business enterprises despite his family money, connections, and Harvard MBA. The difference between Bush and Obama is that Bush would never have made it to the Presidency without his family money and his Dad’s connections and above all without the fact that he was and remains vacuous, malleable, and comes with strings attached. Obama would have never made it without his abilities and some doors opened by societal adjustments to stagnating conditions such as those that produced, produce, and maintain the status quo from where Bush came. Of course Obama probably gamed the system, slacked off, is not a genius, and only achieved high results when working exceptionally hard when inspired. Need one say more?
Cherry pick and bushwhack all you want, without quotas and other adjustments, our society would be in much worse shape.
Alyssa, I see you’ve come to the same conclusions I have about these folks, I often am left either laughing or chuckling and shaking my head in disbelief.
alyssa, issac is the one who brought up intelligence not me. I’m just asking for proof and neither you or he have it. Based on how he has done as president, he seems anything but intelligent.
“We do not rank students at HLS. The student with the top GPA is awarded a prize, the rare student who gets mostly A+s is awarded summa cum laude, there are many years where no one obtains this degree.
However, one can infer from his magna cum laude degree that he was in the top 10% of his class. His position on the law review could mean he was high within that 10% bracket. But there is actually a way to know where he ranks from #1 through 10%.
Magna cum laude is awarded to the top 20% of graduating students. Summa cum laude is awarded to the top 4-5% of graduates. But when Barack Obama graduated from Harvard Law School no one had graduated Summa cum Laude from Harvard in decades and no one graduated Summa cum Laude that year (when he graduated), either. Barack Obama graduated Magna cum Laude and had the highest GPA of anyone graduating from Harvard Law School that year. Therefore he received a prize for having the highest GPA. Some of Obama’s classmates who also graduated that year have publicly stated that Obama won the prize for having the highest GPA in the class.”
http://www.answers.com/Q/What_was_Barack_Obama%27s_class_rank_at_Harvard_Law_School
DBQ and Jim22: Into the “hoot” category you go. Carry on and have a good day. Laughing out loud and shaking my head.
DBQ, But some liberal professors believe he was an outstanding individual. Isn’t that all that is needed?
Alyssa.
Those rules do not prove that Obama had a good grade average. If the highest GPAs in the class were C students then the Suma Cum Laude would be a C student and the rest of the top 10 Manga Cum Laude would be less that a C student.
Your rules prove tnothe.
alyssa, Proves nothing still. With those rules, President Obama could have still been a “C” student. I wonder why such a genius doesn’t want us to see his transcript. I guess he doesn’t have to though when people like issac require no verification. but then again, this is the same side that will believe Ol’ Hill didn’t delete any confidential e-mail.