White men may miss out under job plans

**brian44** · 6th-February-2009

White men may miss out under job plans

White men could be stopped from getting jobs under controversial government plans to allow employers to hire ethnic minority and female candidates ahead of them.
Harriet Harman, the Minister for Women, has launched a consultation into proposals to scrap current laws that ban employers from taking race or sex into consideration when interviewing job candidates.
The plan is described as "positive action" rather than "positive discrimination" because it would not allow a candidate with worse job credentials to be given preferential treatment.
Instead, the measure involves giving employers the right to take race or sex into consideration when choosing between candidates with exactly the same qualifications.
The proposed change in the law could also affect universities, allowing them to select more female students in subjects areas such as the sciences where men have traditionally dominated.
Critics insisted these decisions were already being taken by employers and recruitment officers keen to boost numbers of women and ethnic minorities.
However, Miss Harman is said to believe radical action is needed to help all disadvantaged members of the community gain their full potential.
A spokesman for the Federation of Small Business said: "We would urge caution over the prospect of more Government regulation, which always causes problems for small businesses, which do not have human resources departments to steer them through the legal minefields."
Ann Widdecombe, the Conservative MP and leading campaigner against all-women shortlists in Parliament, said: "In addition to being superfluous, this law would be detrimental because it suggests that women and members of ethnic minorities need special treatment.
"I have always said that every women MP should be able to look every male MP all the way up to the Prime Minister in the eye and know that she did not get there as a result of special treatment. Women at all levels of business need to be able to say the same thing in the boardroom."
Meanwhile, Katherine Rake, of the Fawcett Society, which campaigns for equal pay, said it was unclear how Miss Harman's proposals would stand up in court.
Theresa May, the shadow women's minister, said Miss Harman ought to be concentrating on the real problems facing women in work, such as the gender pay gap.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...job-plans.html

**Dylan MacVillain** · 6th-February-2009

help all disadvantaged members of the community gain their full potential.

Either you have the potential and you use it, or you don't. "Offered services stink", as the saying goes. People don't appreciate what they are given. That is why the children of rich folks are often dunderheads. If you haven't earned something, you will not appreciate the full value of it, not to mention that you may not be worthy of it.

There is no such thing as equality in nature. Enforcing "equality" is a tenet of socialism and leads to the diminution of creativity and ambition. If certain races and a certain gender need that much assistance, then perhaps they haven't got the necessary potential.

Further, enforced "equality" leads to the lowering of standards, such as medical school courses and military fitness qualifications.

Ann Widdecombe, the Conservative MP and leading campaigner against all-women shortlists in Parliament, said: "In addition to being superfluous, this law would be detrimental because it suggests that women and members of ethnic minorities need special treatment.

As with false rape accusations, the true victims are ignored and hypothetical victims take their place.

**Marx** · 6th-February-2009

Theresa May, the shadow women's minister, said Miss Harman ought to be concentrating on the real problems facing women in work, such as the gender pay gap.

So it's a real problem... then she will be promoting women to do more overtime, to apply for harder jobs, to negotiate better terms, to take less sick time, to take dirtier jobs, etc.

Or... will she just blame men?

**brian44** · 6th-February-2009

Quote from Marx

So it's a real problem... then she will be promoting women to do more overtime, to apply for harder jobs, to negotiate better terms, to take less sick time, to take dirtier jobs, etc.

Not to mention more dangerous, more soul-destroying, more boring and less fulfilling jobs.

The Tories have to pander to the female vote even when they are attacking Labour.

**shaazam** · 7th-February-2009

Quote from Marx

So it's a real problem... then she will be promoting women to do more overtime, to apply for harder jobs, to negotiate better terms, to take less sick time, to take dirtier jobs, etc.

Or... will she just blame men?

the latter obviously

**lolintertubes** · 9th-February-2009

I thought this crap had been buried ages ago? When did it get brought back up?

**outdoors** · 9th-February-2009

Hatemen will not be happy untill men want nothing to do with women at all-i am starting to think she is a dyke,pandering to all the females in a futile attempt at sex-maybe her husband has a disfunction with sex that has everything to do with this thing-that calls herself a woman.

Tell me how do the other politicians put up with this shit?Are they totaly stupid or what?

**Celtic Druid** · 9th-February-2009

Quote from AKUUS

There is no such thing as equality in nature. Enforcing "equality" is a tenet of socialism and leads to the diminution of creativity and ambition. If certain races and a certain gender need that much assistance, then perhaps they haven't got the necessary potential.

Good points AKUUS. Feminists will happily wreak untold havoc in order to fulfill their ideological lunacy.

**paul parmenter** · 9th-February-2009

Quote from outdoors

Hatemen will not be happy untill men want nothing to do with women at all-i am starting to think she is a dyke,pandering to all the females in a futile attempt at sex-maybe her husband has a disfunction with sex that has everything to do with this thing-that calls herself a woman.

Tell me how do the other politicians put up with this shit?Are they totaly stupid or what?

Yes, they are totally stupid.