Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Separate class for weaker sex at Norweigian companies?

Hmmm…. for the sake of the argument let’s put aside very obvious and justified counter-arguments to this non-sense churned out by militant feminists for which there are too many, and be a devil’s advocate and try to find some justifications for this.

Yes, I have one, and this is the only one.

You know, in sports, men and women don’t compete together. We have created different classes for men and women: for example, only men can compete in 100 meters dash, and only women are allowed to compete in women’s 100 meters dash. Nobody argues that men and women should be competing together because then the result will be too obvious. If there is gender-mixed or (“blind”) 100 meters dash in national tournament or Olympics, all the winners will be men. There is no way women can beat men and be a winner in such a race. Women are never going to get anywhere near of winning gold medal at Olympics, not even advancing to second stage of preliminaries in your local states high-school tournaments. They are not going to be “represented” in the winner’s circle in the same manner as a larger population. There will be extreme “over-representation” of men and the “gender-balance” of winners is just way too lopsided.

Now let’s turn our eye at the corporate world. At this time of writing (at least yet), men and women work in the same companies, vie for the same corner offices, compete to become CEO under same condition (just now for the sake of argument, although of course in the real world it is already titled heavily in favor of women with all these affirmative actions, etc.). However, the gender balance of corporate CEO’s are pretty much like what gender balance of winners in my hypothetical gender-mixed 100 meters dash would look like. Is it because, just like men’s bigger muscle mass and long legs do in 100 meters dash, innate biological differences, such as men’s propensity for aggressiveness and leadership are giving huge edge over women in corporate life? If so, and if one manages to find some added value in having half the CEO’s chairs or boardroom filled by skirts and those company executive orders signed by polished-nail hands, and if one wishes to see some “women’s game”, then we might need to create a separate class and set aside venues for them to compete, otherwise men would trounce them all over.

If gender feminists are going to accept this argument, then maybe I could start giving some thoughts about gender quota policy for corporate board room, but will they?

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