We should introduce laws to make businesses and state services employ equal numbers of male and female workers in every department or area of the company.’ How far do you support this idea? Give reasons for your answer, and support your essay with ideas and examples from your own experience.

 

We should introduce laws to make businesses and state services employ equal numbers of male and female workers in every department or area of the company.’ How far do you support this idea? Give reasons for your answer, and support your essay with ideas and examples from your own experience.

The current paradigm is overwhelmingly influenced by the thought of attaining gender equality in society. This has sparked a profound debate about whether it will be conducive to create a legal framework that entails equal participation of both sexes in the professional environment. The views expressed and the attitudes elucidated are quite ambivalent on this issue.

To start with, the proposal of installing a numerical cap of 50% on employment of both men and women is founded on the assumption that this would allow the latter a level playing field. In the world, that is dominated by the former sex, females are generally disregarded and dismissed as being incapable of undertaking several professional endeavors, which is unfortunately a missed placed notion. Having a legal statute  would empower the weaker sex and allow them to gain employment in the occupation they have a penchant for without facing any hurdles.

Having said that, the former postulation sans substance and is likely to prove to be a recipe for disaster. Even if such an arrangement may not ferment jealousy and resentment in the workforce, there is a great likelihood of productivity deteriorating. One fact that is hard to circumvent is that the selection of personnel is done on the basis of their qualifications and capabilities rather than their sex-there are laws that prohibit gender-based discrimination at workplace. However, if such a ceiling were implemented, it would mandate employing even those job seekers who do not meet the criteria perfectly, making organisations vulnerable to losses and setbacks.

Overall,  despite certain assumed benefits of implementing this proposal, I strongly feel that it is unlikely to yield any favourable outcomes; thus I fail to subscribe to such a law since it will do more harm than good.