The Vitality to Discourage Gender Quotas

The white-collar workforces used to be dominated by males since the dawn of the working era. However, as time progresses, women are flocking to join these workforces everywhere around the globe. The days when majority of the women, who were to be found in the kitchen cooking for their cantankerous husbands whilst waiting for their husbands’ return from work, were long gone. Soon enough, equality of genders became a fundamental human right. In addition to that, some government especially the government of Europe went overboard by mandating unnecessary high level jobs quota system reserved exclusively for women disregard of their qualifications; thereby claiming it is able to create a level of equality for both men and women. However, this has imposed a new challenge for the working young men as their chances of a promotion would be given to a woman. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that the government should not unnecessarily reserve any percentage of high level jobs for women. Although it is believed that these quotas acts as a recovery to the lack of women, the number of its cons clearly outnumbers its pros as employment of high level jobs should based on equality with equal chances of job opportunity, and imposing these quotas will eventually compromise the quality of work due to the difference in personalities and make-up between men and women, and the lack of support of quota as some women themselves simply do not want quota to be implemented.

It is of no surprise that the reservation of high level jobs for women is due to the obvious lack of women in these areas compared to men. By introducing this quota system, a diverse and equal number of both genders at the top level will be achieved as it quickly and directly na...

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... of both genders must be practised, and the different personalities of many women makes them unsuitable for the job, and the unwelcomed acceptance of the quota system by the women themselves. Equality should not be forced on people, be it in the field of education or family life. Instead, equality can only be achieved when those who are qualified enough earned these high level jobs regardless of sexes. There is also no point in giving the high level position for women who lack the qualification as it will deteriorate the company’s performance in a long term (or short term). The opinions of many women to defy gender quotas also proved that gender quota itself is not the best choice to balance up the number of men and women at the top. Therefore, it is wise that the government should opt for other solutions in order to balance gender equality than implementing quota.