I think that the racial argument is pretty relevant here.
Since you're from Ukraine and I'm also from east Europe I want to say that we're probably the last ones who should talk about racial stuff since we have less than 0.0000.. god knows how many people from other races in our country. (don't bring in the Tatars)
As for gender quotas - I know that it doesn't seem right and males can suffer from it, but that's called positive action and so far there is no better alternative, perhaps.
So the better alternative is to let the other half suffer...really? really?
I think that some less strict policies can be adopted, though.
Like webinars on tech stuff for teenage girls.
I, on the other hand, am fro Ukraine, and believe me that while there is no law that forbids women to enter some spheres, most of employers feel justified in not hiring women simply because some day the latter might take a maternity leave or because they think that women are not able to be good workers even if their qualifications say otherwise.
That is exactly what I was talking about.
There is no discrimination happening, it's simply a matter of choice for the good of a company.
If you're going to force me in new business to
Hire 50/50 female male, hire only young people that never worked before, hire 10% people with disabilities and stuff like that when one two years have passed and I finally have a real workforce maybe half of the females might be on maternal leave...Will the state come and give a law that will specify that my company will never go bankrupt and will they pay me all the losses? Nope. I have to hire new people, train them, and then after two years again show them the door and welcome all the female employees back, time in which maybe I have to retrain them since in the IT world things change from month to month not year to year.
It's easy to look at it from outside, but when you run a business it's a different picture.
Is there a law? No!
