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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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Mick Mørmøny
To: Rarebird who wrote (1248856)7/22/2020 2:47:51 PM
From: Tenchusatsu1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1584176
 
Rarebird,
I don't see a problem with boards being mandated with at least 20% women.
The law itself seems benign. There isn't much to actually being a board member other than prestige.

But the very concept of instituting gender quotas is just plain wrong. What's to stop the government from imposing a 20% quota on any other field? If you were a woman hired into said field, would you like it if you were hired not because of your qualifications, but because you're a woman?
You are so harsh and judgemental when you really don't know why people study what they do.
I come from an Ivy League. More than half of my college friends studied subjects that turned out not to be useful or marketable in their current lives. And I'm fine with that.

But I don't think ANY of them expects the government to pay for the consequences of their choices. They chose to go to a private (or in my case, mostly private) university. They chose to take out loans and go into debt. They had the option to go to a state school like SUNY. Yet they chose an Ivy League because, you know, it's an Ivy League, and the benefits of said education go further than just what you can earn with it.

I get that, but once again, it's not the government's responsibility to pay for such a luxury.

Tenchusatsu
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