'In a report today, the School of Management at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, says firms are good at hiring young women to junior jobs, but too few make it to the top.' (Mail.)They advocate forcing firms to promote women.
There is one reason and one reason alone why women do not receive as many promotions as men and it is the family choice of many to stay home and be the main carer for the children. This results in what is called 'the interrupted career pattern'. It is completely unreasonable for such women to be considered as equals or better than the men whose work patterns have not been interrupted thus.
The only fair system is merit. Those few women who pursue a career and their husband is the main child carer tend to do as well - if not better - than male counterparts.
This is not some intrinsic unfairness. It is reality and to impose something to 'change outcomes' would be bordering immoral.
