Or maybe it was the fact that when I did my teachers degree I only had one other male in my class?
In fact, the professors said I had pretty much secured myself a job because I joined an industry dominated by women and schools are screaming for male teachers to be more diverse.
So my school’s should have hired males who didn’t have teacher licenses in order to not be sexist?
How is it silly? If you’re looking for 10 people to fill 10 cabinet positions, then you only need a few qualified female candidates. You don’t need the entire female population.
What are the odds that NOT A SINGLE female in all of Taiwan is qualified for any of those 10 positions?
Well it happened. I would have been happy for a qualified female too. But I wouldn’t be happy having one (who was not the “best candidate”) there for the hell of it.
Why do you assume that males can’t have teaching licenses?
Of course they should have hired males who were qualified.
Read where I said earlier that out of my class, only one other male was doing the course for a teachers license.
I’ve had enough of wasting my time with this nonsensical nonsense.
Right. It happened because, most likely, they didn’t put in an effort to expand the candidate pool to include females who could very well be just as qualified.
It’s not very likely that it happened due to there not being a single qualified female in all of Taiwan.
I agree, but I find it hard to believe that not a single female candidate is educated enough and experienced enough to hold at least one of those cabinet positions.
It’s not like females in Taiwan receive inferior education to males, and it’s not like females in Taiwan don’t work in government.
why do I need to choose the least worst female candidate when I have a male one which is better suited?
I qualified as the janitor for my business.
Company Founder sounds so elite.
I am qualified to be unqualified… A mere mortal.
Nobody says you have to find a female who is less qualified, and I don’t know where this assumption is coming from.
Just choose a female who is at least equally qualified. We have plenty of females to choose from in Taiwan who hold different high positions in government, academia, and business. I find it hard to believe that all of them are less qualified than all of the males that they picked.
I guess we “only need one” so just grab the best qualified female. Doesn’t matter if the best qualified female is not as qualified as all the other applicants. One doesn’t matter? Right?
Now we are moving to “at least equally qualified?” What if none were?
Doesn’t mean that they applied or were superior to the other applicants.
I find it hard to believe the sky is somehow blue. However, when I look out the window it is the sad reality.
Out of all of this complaining… Do you realise the outgoing president is a female? That means she beat out the others.
Again:
So much sexism here in this thread, with so many people assuming that if you choose a female candidate there is no way they are going to be as qualified as male candidates.
How come there aren’t any females on Seal Team 6? Do you think they should take in the best qualified applicant of the best qualified of each gender?
Why are you again making the assumption that the best qualified female candidate can’t be as good as the best qualified male candidate?
I didn’t realize we were applying the same set of physical requirements of joining Seal Team 6 to, say, the Minister of National Development.
Because that’s exactly what happened. They went through the applicants, chose the best most qualified. None were female.
It’s an anecdote to what you are saying.
A bad and irrelevant example, is what it is.
BTW I just realized you misunderstood what I meant when I said the following:
I edited that sentence:
I agree. There should be >50% women and LGBTQ+. The current picks are really wrong.
That’s not PC. That’s just good sense.
People who claim this always freak out when the percentage of women is 100% in power positions, but never when it’s 100% men.
If they’re qualified… why not? Could be 100% for all I care. Why only greater that 50%?
As long as they are picked because they were the best qualified for the job… nobody would freak out