Reservation

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/india-inc-women-get-only-37-out-of-every-100-new-jobs-created-in-fy19-119111300361_1.html

Apparently for 100 jobs created, women get only 37 jobs. That more jobs should be reserved for women so it's 50-50.

This is the age old question about reservation. Earlier it was about caste, minorities. Now it's about women.

If men started to insist on reservation in fields largely manned by women such as in nursing, gynecology, women's innerwear shops, preprimary teaching in schools, I wonder what they reaction of women would be.

Would there be hostility, warm acceptance, deep discomfort?

Affirmative action is one thing. Insistence on a quota (minimum or maximum) is quite something else. A small minimum quota of some disadvantaged group is acceptable. A quota in proportion to their numbers in their population is ugly.

Imagine tomorrow if all people with diabetes wanted a quota. Or men who short, dark and ugly wanted a quota. The list is endless.