On Wednesday 14 Mar 2012, Roopesh P Raj wrote: > [snip] > Here the Govt. has decided that late night transportation is the duty > of companies when it is the companies who are benefiting out of > their employees work. Which is a very fare thing to do. It is not > that men are safe to travel at odd hours in a place like Bangalore. > There are many crimes getting reported against men also. Right thing > to do is to make it mandatory for the companies to provide safe > transport to male employees also who are working for the company at > odd hours.
That's fair enough. My original point (which of course has got mutated by people into their own personal anti-capitalistic, anti-corporate or pro-socialism peeve) is that laws that penalise organisations for hiring women will, eventually, result in fewer women being hired and increase gender inequality. Any form of privilege or reservation increases inequality and sharpens discrimination, and in general any special privilege or reservation is an admission of failure on the part of the state. This is just one more example. The only logical next step is, once hiring starts dropping, reservations for women in IT jobs. Let the State tell us how to run our businesses. To see one more phase in this same process, consider Haryana's law of yesterday banning workplaces from employing women after 8pm. This is effectively the same as the law to be passed in Karnataka (?), penalising businesses that employ women and keep them at work outside "reasonable" hours -- in Karnakata you have to provide extra transport and security, raising the cost of business, while in Haryana you have to get special permission from some government authority or the other, again raising the cost of business. If you laud the Karnataka ruling, you ought to laud the Haryana one too. So what's the next step? Force all women to stay indoors forever (that will definitely bring down rape, no?) Make them cover themselves from top to toe whenever they step out of the house (as our Lords and Masters have repeatedly expressed, men are not responsible for violence against provocatively dressed women)? Or just kill off all female foetuses (Kudos Haryana, you have done more for gender equality than any other state in the country!)? Hey, if there are no women there can be no crimes against women, so let's just practise female foeticide and kill off all girl infants, problem solved in 50 years! Waiting for the call from the Nobel Prize committee now. Unfortunately I'll have to share the prize amount with the great thinkers who have preceded me: state governments of K'taka and H'yana, Ms Sheila Dikshit, other politicians too numerous to mention, etc., but still... Please do not disturb. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
