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[...The world is changing. We have just marriage on equal terms in California, we have an equality bill ...]
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The world is changing. We have just marriage on equal terms in California, we have an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/27/equality.constitution">equality bill in the UK</a> (although it must surely only represent a start, given that 70% of businesses in the economy won't be covered by it), and even Ireland is instituting a <a href="http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8104.html">civil partnership bill</a>. It's a relief that legislatures, executives and judiciaries everywhere are acknowledging the benefits of diversity, and that actually <i>enforcing</i> equality benefits us all - just look at Sweden. Unlike Britain's proposal, <a href="http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2001/wom1287.doc.htm">Sweden has mainstreamed specifically gender equality</a> into <i>all</i> policy making since 1994, rather than instituting just pockets of equal rights legislation. And <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/closing-the-gender-gap-why-women-now-reign-in-spain-809619.html">Norway's Gender Equality Act requires</a>: ...that all publicly appointed committees, including the cabinet, should be made up of at least 40 per cent men and at least 40 per cent women. This rule was extended in 2004 to state-owned companies. Then in 2006, the government legislated to impose an extraordinary ultimatum on Norway's public limited companies – either have a minimum of 40 per cent of women on the company board by 1 January 2008, or be closed down. Despite the dire prophecies of economic catastrophe, the law has come into force without driving out any major company. That's not to say that the UK couldn't go down that route, particularly looking at the two year gap between public and private implementation in Norway - we can only hope. What is already proposed however puts Boris Johnson's behaviour as Mayor of London to shame. His Director of Policy, Arts, Culture and the Creative Industries Munira Mirza, when justifying <a href="">http://www.guardian.
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