Re:Computer Science Education
by metaobject on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:12AM
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So are there any gender quotas currently in place?
Some political parties already have quotas in their statutes for a long time (Die Grünen (Green Party) - 50%; SPD - 30% I think).
Since Januar 2016 gender quotas for the supervisory council of the 106 largest market-listed companies were introduced. For restaffing in the supervisory council there is a quota of 30% for both gender (or the position has to be left vacant).
Wikipedia link:
> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frauenquote&oldid...
Here a Reuters article about the topic:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20160619090749/http://de.reuters....
Here an "official" article by the Federal Minestry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth ["Federal Minestry for everybody except men" ;-) ]:
> https://www.bmfsfj.de/bmfsfj/themen/gleichstellung/frauen-un...
> This is not a zero-sum game. Creating a new opportunity for girls does not remove an existing opportunity for a boy.
Not when quotas are involved. In Germany, where I live, every few years serious attempts to introduce women quota for companies are attempted to pass as a law (which typically are only prevented in the last moment because of massive protests of business associations).