Australia: Companies That Want Government Contracts Will Have to Meet “Gender Equality” Targets

What an ugly bitch

If:

  • Women are just as competent as man, and
  • The only way to get companies to hire women is for the government to bully and threaten them

Then that means that businesses are not actually driven by profit, but rather an inexplicable desire to oppress women.

If this is the case (and that is definitely the case every Western government is making), it seems like there should be some research into how this works. Instead, we have no evidence at all showing that companies of any kind are willing to sacrifice profits in order to oppress women.

The Guardian:

Big business and government boards will be pushed to improve gender equality under new measures announced by the Albanese government.

The minister for women, Katy Gallagher, announced on Thursday that businesses with 500 employees or more will be required to meet new gender equality targets if they want to win government contracts.

Gallagher revealed the board target policy at the National Press Club while releasing the first gender equality strategy, including a commitment to pay 12% superannuation on publicly funded paid parental leave from July 2025.

“Today I am also pleased to say that the government will use its purchasing power to better support gender equality outcomes,” she said.

Bitch, the government’s “purchasing power” is other people’s money, not your own personal piggy bank to use for whatever retarded bullshit goes through your retarded head.

“We’ll use the workplace gender equality reporting framework to make it a rule that, in order to win government work, businesses with 500 or more employees must commit to targets to improve gender equality in their workplaces.

“These targets will focus on the gender makeup of their boards and the workforce; equal pay; flexible working arrangements; workplace consultation on gender equality; and efforts to prevent and address sexual harassment.”

Gallagher said the measure would ensure that “women are getting a fairer slice” of the $70bn spent by the government procuring goods and services.

According to the strategy, big businesses will have to “commit to and achieve workplace targets against at least three” gender equality indicators.

These are: the gender composition of governing bodies and of the workforce, equal remuneration, flexibility and care friendly work arrangements, workplace consultation on gender equality, and efforts to prevent and address sexual harassment.

Gallagher did not specify what the targets will be – which suggests they may not require women to be half of all board members – but said the Workplace Gender Equality Agency is consulting now to draw them up.

Asked to confirm that these targets will be mandatory, Gallagher replied: “We are serious about it … The commitment there is real. We will be doing this.”

Yeah, well.

Good luck competing with the Chinese.

They definitely won’t be doing this.