A less pleasant aspect of 'railway photography'?
"The Iron Jelloid" wrote in
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Once upon a time, 1506 wrote:
In my professional life I have observed less qualified women
promoted,
rather than better qualified men. That particular form of
"affirmative action" has been fashionable for a while.
Not in the UK it wasn't, ISTR the equality acts ban any form of
discrimination, negative or positive.
Banning something doesn't necessarily stop it happening!
I know things were different in
the US, one of the Dirty Harry films partly based on that premise,
where
a female cop with no beat experience is promoted to detective in
order
to fulfil a mayor's quota. Agree that's a bad way to do it - better
to
make discrimination illegal, and then make sure the rule is enforced
by
hammering any company that flouts it with large fines.
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- The Iron Jelloid
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