NZ trails rest of the world in company board equality

22 Jul 2011 07:55a.m.

alien wrote:

forget gender and simply hire the best for the job

21 Jul 2011 01:07p.m.

Martin wrote:

And the rubbish continues. Every job I have had over the last 22 years there have been more women been in higher positions or equal positions to me most were paid more than me. Why, they there longer with more pay rises, better performance or productivity than me, had more education than me the list goes on. When I was paid higher it was for the same reasons. Some women stay home to take care of children but during that period have studied. My flight instructor was paid more than her equal because her full devotion to continued study and utmost devotion to the job. She is now a captain in Air NZ and her equal is ...wait for it still an instructor. If you want to winge make sure you have the same suudies, same drive, taken the same opportunites, same perfomance reviews,same experience, same attitude, same productivity and the ezact same job as your male equal and then instead of percentages from the sky which we can all massage in our favour be proactive and positive and investigate you seemingly unfounded views. Why does it seem this way - attitudes towards assuming the male inability to raise children properly, choice to do so rather then "compete in a males world" (Mot my bosses) the list goes on. NZ is smaller with fewer Senior positions with a flatter management structure than other countries. Tough luck to the Female and Male candidates. Get over it and get out there and go hard and compete with your equals employed in the same job and the same prerequisites and same drive and attitude and appraisals and if you don't get the same pay then fight for it or leave. If there is substance to the "statistics" then all the males will be left foundering. Bugger.

21 Jul 2011 10:16a.m.

don wrote:

"There's an emerging body of evidence that links the presence of women on company boards and corporate performance, including profitability, so that's why it matters to New Zealand," says Pamela Cohen. oh yeah? that implies that women are generally more competent than men. I'd like to see that body of evidence! lets have a few brown-skinned paraplegics appointed to boards while we are about it, if we are going to go that far down the discrimination path.