Should corporations be required to have quotas for women on their boards?

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Dagens Nyheter has two days examined gender equality in the Swedish company. Among both listed and private limited companies are men of strong majority. On the stock market, the proportion of women in company boards in line with the companies' size. Right now, the proportion of women in the 287 companies on the Stockholm Stock Exchange listing of small, medium and large enterprises 27.5 percent. On the list of development the proportion is only 13 percent. The government has previously promised, or rather threatened to introduce mandatory legislation if the proportion of women on boards in 2016 did not go up to 40 percent. That promise is the government stick to, as children, the elderly and Gender Åsa Regnér. - I and the government would like to see come to 40 percent themselves and then you do not need legislation. Legislation is not an end in itself, says Åsa Regnér.

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I generally detest these kind of "reverse-discrimination" suggestions because the primary or even sole motivation is to increase the proportional size of one group (at the expense of others) through coercion simply to achieve some ideal "equality".

Why should one stop there? Why not make it so that the board of directors must be 50/50 between men and women? Even then this obviously excludes intersex people, shouldn't they also be quoted in? What about quotas for people based on their sexuality, ethnicity, handedness or religious beliefs?

Shouldn't all those groups also be "properly represented"?

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