Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Germany plans to set quota for women in boardrooms | DW Business" video.

  1. If everyone assumes that the leaders should be male it means that the thought won't even be considered. Neither by those hiring nor the candidates themselves. Don't tell me that half the population is unable to make a single qualified candidate for a board of 4-5 people or more. In my own country the quota is much higher.
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  2. There's already an constraint in the lack of diversity in the boards and the people doing the hiring... Also Germany doesn't believe in profit above everything. There's already laws about requiring representatives from the employees. That diversity has done Germany nothing but good, not just for the employees but also for the profit.
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  3.  @PHlophe  If there's a quota then companies will be funding more students and measures encouraging females to join said studies and so one and so forth. This stuff has worked just fine here in the nordic countries. And it's not like they're requiring half of them to be female or one third, just *one*. And this is in a country where you are already required by law to have reprentatives from the workers in the board. So adding a woman is hardly that much of a stretch. Part of the point is actually to get more than one point of view representated there. The best individual for a task might not be the best team member for a task. Just look at football players doing it all solo leading to the team losing vs teams where every player individually is inferior to every member of the opposite team but where the team as a whole is superior. Any team where even a tiny bit of creativity is required benefits from getting more perspectives, be that from someone from a different place (say both a republican and a democrat in the US as well as people preferring third parties, men, women, natives, immigrants, people from rural areas and urban areas, cities and the countryside etc. It just means that you don't get stuck in a situation where no one has an idea that isn't different from everyone else because everyone got the same background, and because people are also different they're also more on their toes when communicating, being more careful and quite frankly better team players) Exposure to different ideas has been proven to on average increase productivity and innovation in pretty much every single contexts where it's been tried out.
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  4.  @celsieknaus5723  Yep, and we're just talking about a single bloody woman or board... It's not like they're forcing them to have 40% women like some countries...
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