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"en.20151202.21.1-272-000"2
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"Mr President, my contribution to today’s debate will utilise my experience as a former non-executive director of a UK Stock Exchange-listed company, a venture capital trust, as a board chair, and finally as a charity board trustee. The dimension that this EU policy does not address is that endemic through the business community is the aspect of ‘not
you know, but
you know’. Even the international recruitment sector responsible for people search acknowledges this depressing situation. Thus, whilst we all want to see more women take board or other influential roles in companies, the reality conspires against that outcome.
The issues at stake are not about merit, experience and qualifications: they are about transparency of the recruitment process and the contribution that quality recruitment will and could make. Gender is completely immaterial, and by introducing quotas the fight against discrimination then becomes skewed by discrimination. Forcing companies to adopt 40% gender quotas and penalising them if they do not is hardly responsible or even realistic legislation. If the EU truly wants to redress the situation, then go back to the drawing board, please, and tackle the misogynist establishment which utilises the old boy network across Europe. I cannot support this."@en1
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