Comments by "Brand131" (@Brand131) on "Germany agrees legal quotas to boost women in business" video.
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The new frontier of the beginning of the 21th century was the internet. Many pioneering companies started in the 90's, all setup by men and these men subsequently left the women of their generation in their wake. Now people complain how these women were 'discriminated against', while the internet from the start was an equal opportunity playing field were even youngster could do well. The next frontier will be the industrialization of space, and yet again we see it are the men who are setting up the pioneering companies.
It is true that women make up most of the college graduates nowadays, but then, there are also many more 'pointless' fields now, such as psychology, sociology, pedagogy, arts, languages, etc. The fields that matter are the sciences, the real ones, physics, mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, engineering, IT, all fields were, apparently, women still "need help" getting into.
In short, women have been missing the boat, because they either were not smart enough, dedicated enough, cared enough. They will keep missing the boat because of this. Any legislation changing the subsequent outcomes won't help since it will only address the symptoms and not the actual problem, namely that women have different drives and interests.
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