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Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field. But all too often such
Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field. But all too often such
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2021-01-06
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Progressives often support diversity mandates as a path to equality and a way to level the playing field. But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.
A pair of bills sponsored by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad, to ensure “gender parity"on boards and commissions, provide a case in commissions will be required to set aside 50 percent of board seats for women by 2022.
The bills are similar to a measure recently adopted in California, which last year became the irst state to require gender quotas for private companies. In signing the measure, California Govermor Jery Brown admitted that the law, which expressly classifies people on the basis of sex, is probably unconstitutional.
The US Supreme Court frowns on sex-based classifications unless they are designed to address an“important"policy interest, Because the California law applies to all boards, ever where there is no history of prior discrimination, courts are likely to rule that the law violates the constitutional guarantee of“equal protection”.
But are such government mandates even necessary?Female participation on corporate boards may not currently mirror the percentage of women. in the general population, but so what?
The number of women on corporate boards has been steadily increasing without govenment interference. According to a study by Catalyst, between 2010 and 2015 the share of women on the boards of global corporations increased by 54 percent.
Requiring companies to make gender the primary qualification for board membership will inevitably lead to less experienced private sector boards. That is exactly what happened when Norway adopted a nationwide corporate gender quota.
Writing in The New Republic, Alice Lee notes that increasing the number of opportunities for board membership without increasing the pool of qualified women to serve on such boards has led to a“golden skirt"phenomenon. where the same elite women scoop up multiple seats on a variety of boards.
Next time somebody pushes corporate quotas as a way to promote gender equity, remember that such policies are largely self-serving measures that make their sponsors feel good but do little to help average women.
Which of the following is true of the Califomnia measure?____
选项
A、It has irritated private business owners.
B、It is welcomed by the Supreme Court.
C、It may go against the Constitution.
D、It will setle the prior controversies.
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的关键词 California measures定位到原文第五段第二句,Because the California law applies to all boards, . . . courts are likely to rule that the law violate the constitutional guarantee of "equal protection" violate 违反宪法,选项C against替换violate为正确选项。
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