EU to debate women board quotas

EU commissioners are due to debate proposals that would force quotas for women on corporate boards.

The plan is to make it mandatory for companies to reserve 40% of seats on the board for women.

Of all the proposals and policies discussed and created by the EU, this one has to be right up there in the stupidity stakes.

All having a gender quota will do is create a huge mess, people, male or female, should be hired for a job based on one thing and one thing alone, are they the best candidate for it.

If this idea is introduced what will be the incentive for men to apply themselves and excel in the workplace if there is a policy in place that means they can’t progress any further up the career ladder, because those positions have been reserved for women.

Hopefully this proposal doesn’t make it past the debate stage.