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Norway's firms face gender law



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Published Date: 28 December 2007
By ALLAN HALL
NORWAY is about to smash the glass ceiling for women in the workplace with a sweeping new law.
From next week, firms must employ 40 per cent of female boardroom directors – or face being shut down.

At 37 per cent, Norway already has the highest number of female boardroom executives in the world. The UK has 28 per cent, according to a report out earlier this month, but only 11 per cent in the top FTSE 350 companies.

Many Norwegian firms say they will not meet the quota deadline set for Monday and will have to shut until women get the posts once reserved for men.

A team of bureaucrats in Oslo has been tasked with keeping tabs on companies in the weeks and months ahead to make sure the ratio is being constantly increased to the required levels.

The law was passed by a previous government in 2003 with the deadline set for New Year's Day 2008. In that time, the percentage of female board members has jumped from 6 per cent to the current level.



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  • Last Updated: 27 December 2007 9:15 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

American,

USA 28/12/2007 03:59:02
That's just so wrong! You dont hire or appoint someone because of their gender or race, you hire or appoint because of their qualifications. Bad law.
2

airmick,

Delaware USA 28/12/2007 05:32:07
#1 SHSSSSSSS.. American I love it when others nations
let quotas and political correctness advance the un-worthy to positions of leadership.

they'll learn the lesson, the hard way.
3

bill2,

28/12/2007 09:26:07
Jobs for the girls.
4

Eric D,

Renfrewshire 28/12/2007 09:38:41
It sounds like the Norwegian state is circling the pan, before the inevitable self-destruction.

I hear they are doing the same with the 3rd world immigrants.

This country was once No'1 for human development and quality of life, but thanks to the self hating socialists, that is changing fast despite high GDP.
5

FLUB,

a rocky outcrop in eastern central Scotland 28/12/2007 09:40:10
How to destroy the wealth creating capacity of your country in one easy lesson! Seriously, how did they ever manage to get this enacted?

It beggars belief. Cue a taxpayer (if there are any left) funded enforcement agency composed of otherwise unemployable (expletive deleted), and be prepared to cause higher unemployment, but hey, it's a price worth paying, isn't it?

I would be interested to see if the Scotsman would follow this up in say, five years time, to see if it's been quietly swept off the statute books.

It occurs to one, given current events elsewhere, how they will enforce this law against firms run by Muslims, given their at best, dubious, attitude toward the fairer sex.
6

Jeff, Surrey,

28/12/2007 10:26:25
This has nothing to do with real 'gender equality'.

This appalling Norwegian law merely reinforces gender inequality by treating the sexes differently.

7

Fi,

Edinburgh 28/12/2007 12:38:00

Number 6, you are ablsolutely correct, they've obviously made a typographical error in the legislation. It ought to be 50:50.

Now, isn't it today your turn to be chained to the kitchen sink?
8

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 28/12/2007 13:52:49
"From next week, firms must employ 40 per cent of female boardroom directors – or face being shut down."

So they can no longer employ those who are best able to do the job. How rediculous. It appears that this country no longer has the monopoly on stupid laws then.

However, there is a way round it---keep your original board of directors but if necessary add some women to it in name only. I'm sure that there are some women who could make a tidy living out of being named on various boards but never having to attend the meetings.

Out of interest, does it mean that this also works the other way round, so boards with a majority of women must now find some men to hold office?
9

Reckless,

Fife 28/12/2007 17:21:59
This is the beginning of the end for all of us.

"In the 1960's, the elite media invented second-wave feminism as part of the elite agenda to dismantle civilization and create a New World Order."
http://www.savethemales.ca/180302.html


"In a later conversation, Rockefeller asked Russo what he thought women's liberation was about. Russo's response that he thought it was about the right to work and receive equal pay as men, just as they had won the right to vote, caused Rockefeller to laughingly retort, "You're an idiot! Let me tell you what that was about, we the Rockefellers funded that, we funded women's lib, we're the ones who got all of the newspapers and television - the Rockefeller Foundation." Rockefeller told Russo of two primary reasons why the elite bankrolled women's lib: One before women's lib the bankers couldn't tax half the population and two because it allowed them to get children in school at an earlier age, enabling them to be indoctrinated into accepting the state as the primary family, breaking up the traditional family model."

http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/rockefeller_admitted_elite_goal_microchipped_population.htm



10

Dáithí,

San Jose 28/12/2007 17:24:35
Is discrimination against women real? - Yes.

Is this the way to address it? - Nope.
11

Goomba,

Ohio 28/12/2007 17:37:13
Dear Norway,

You're kidding, right?

John
12

Jock Tamson,

Scotland, Caledonia, Alba 28/12/2007 19:21:56
Don't talk to me about women at the moment. The mothers of my 2 children are giving me grief.

Why? Because they are women. Surely they should be in the bored room and not the Board Room unless they merit it?
13

Jock Tamson,

Scotland. Caledonia, Alba 28/12/2007 19:24:56
Wendy Alexander. Merit? Gie's a break, Norway.
14

TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 28/12/2007 20:49:38
The nefarious "sisterhood" has won again and this insane law reeks of gender inequality.

Let the members of these boards be determined by merit and not what equipage they have between their legs.
15

Nancy "Stretch" Pelosi,

San Francisco 29/12/2007 15:54:35
1 American,USA

I'm shocked you have fallen into the political correctness trap of using the word gender instead of the correct word of sex. I guess you never listen to G. Gordon Liddy
16

Reckless,

Fife 29/12/2007 15:54:42
I've got a w1lly, so I'm no eligible for one of these special jobs.
17

Doreen,

The Cyber Shebeen 29/12/2007 23:15:18
Those vile stinking malevolent feminists are at it again....the silent invasion slowly creeping into positions of responsibility...emasculating our boys with their power dressing padded shoulders...yes I know..so 80's but it'l be back...."you mark my words..fashion comes around every 20 years girl...you hang onto that Mary Quant tent like smock"...that's what my dear old mother taught me....

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