End Quotas

With the rise of the "quota" groups have found acceptable ways to discriminate against groups and lobby for those who are successful amongst there "group" be seen as the "token" individual whether they have worked hard to achieve a strong position or not.

The danger with quotas is the applications of them. Firstly quotas are only designed to force women into male dominated industries. Quotas are not established to rebalance other industries or occupations. In fact, whilst it is acknowledged within Australia that there is a distinct lack of male teachers which is having a negative impact on male school students. We have not yet seen quotas established for teachers. Further we have not seen financial incentives developed for Men to get them into teaching; however, we repeatedly see industry packages designed to support women into position.

Since the release of the Broderick Review senior defence officials have stated that they will allow discrimination against males in an attempt to bolster women in the senior ranks. Whilst we do this we will only ever establish a culture of mediocrity. As an aside Broderick stated that there was a "warrior culture" at the Defence Force Academy (a military having a warrior culture - who would have think [sarcasm for those who didn't get it]) and this should be abolished.

The pay gap is another argument used by feminists to push quotas. See the Gender Pay Gap for comments on this topic.

Quotas also fail to acknowledge one fact - men, on average, work longer hours than women. In 2012, according to the ABS, men worked 63% more hours than women and men make up 65% of the full time work force. In a further break down of these statistics approx four times as many men work 60+ hours as women.

The use of quotas largely pushes under qualified women into positions that a more qualified, non-quota person, could fill. And do a better job. Business will continue to find the best people to employ and when "quota people" start to perform they will naturally feel these jobs.