The Daily telegraph argues that the latest ridiculous plan from the Human Rights Commission to force gender quotas on businesses is an insult to sensible women, and an attack on men.
Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins proposes that government contractors will need to employ at least 40 per cent women to help close the gender pay gap.
Miranda Devine, a columnist with The Daily Telegraph, expresses concerns that companies which refuse to hire token women and discriminate against men would risk losing lucrative government contracts under the proposal.
She points out that it will simply overburden businesses already drowning in red tape, arguing that companies need to have the ability to hire the best person for the job, otherwise government contracts will become more expensive and it will be the taxpayer who has to foot the bill.
She says none of this has anything to do with fairness or equity but is just another way to infect every enterprise in the nation with the virus of identity politics, whereby people are divided by sex, race, religion and sexuality rather than by who we are.
And she argues that there is no point in swapping people from a job theyre good at to a job that doesnt suit them just to satisfy some arbitrary target dreamt up by social engineers.
