Is the "Minister for women" a charge common in other countries too? It's the first time I've heard of it and, quite honestly, it sounds pretty weird (albeit I undertand why it's there). I guess some push is needed for this kind of change, as the system is somehow natually fit for status quo. In a perfect world, gender in these matters wouldn't even be part of the discussion at all. These are intellectual, not physica…
In my opinion it is against our basic law even if the BVG disagreed. The lesson here is just that you can discriminate, you just need to have the correct reason. I expected more from my country, honestly. They evaded the rules by making it a gender quota, so it would also apply to males if the situation would be reversed, the guardian produced fake news again. But to me these rules are still discrimination and arbitr…
You're right that it's an arbitrary change, but on the other hand, every change is arbitrary whem you want to modify an established system.
Of course the question here is if this is the morally correct way of doing things.
Personally, this all sounds weird to me: it's like enforcing a rule where, from now on, at least 25% of your workforce must be muslim. Why should one's religion be of any concern in all this?
Same thing for gender.
If the problem is that the positions are being filled in a shady or non-meritocratic way, that's the problem to address. But I'm not sure this is what it's been talked about here.