{"id":9648,"date":"2019-05-21T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2019-05-21T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:08:00","slug":"social-womengineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9648\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Womengineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments under my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9644\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last post<\/a>, David Thompson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9644\/comment-page-1\/#comment-447662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remarks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But apparently, it\u2019s more important to have women \u201cin every role,\u201d at \u201cfifty percent,\u201d because people mustn\u2019t \u201csee policing as primarily a male-dominated job.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to gender equality we are rapidly abandoning equality of opportunity in favour of equality of outcomes, the latter of which can only result in a deeply unhappy and dysfunctional society. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/travel\/2019\/03\/qantas-commits-to-more-female-pilots-on-international-women-s-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another example<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By 2028, Qantas hopes 40 percent of its pilot intakes are female &#8211; a move that comes after Virgin Australia exceeded its goal of having at least 50 percent of its pilot cadet intakes female in 2018.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnlondon.com\/articles\/goldman-sachs-wants-half-of-new-recruits-to-be-women-20190318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another<\/a> (H\/T Ken):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Goldman Sachs\u00a0wants half of the next intake of its junior recruitment programme to be women, and will hold its managers\u00a0responsible for promoting more minorities to\u00a0managing director\u00a0as part of a new diversity push.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If men aren&#8217;t taking note of this direction of travel and preparing to do something about it, things aren&#8217;t going to turn out well for them &#8211; nor anyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments under my last post, David Thompson remarks: But apparently, it\u2019s more important to have women \u201cin every role,\u201d at \u201cfifty percent,\u201d because people mustn\u2019t \u201csee policing as primarily a male-dominated job.\u201d When it comes to gender equality &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9648\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,111,79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}