Wolfgang Schmitz of the employers' association said that "a quota merely treats the symptoms, not the causes of the low representation of women in leading roles".
Other district leaders complained about the low representation of minorities and women among the party's candidates, whose nominations require official approval at a convention, scheduled for next week, controlled by party leaders.
Can the low representation of women in parliament be cancelled out by a high proportion of homes connected to gas?Whatever the value of such comparisons, the report is a mine of interesting comparative data.
The program has also faced claims that the low representation of women in the physical sciences and engineering is natural.
"We do not mean to imply that the low representation of women is benign," writes Rachel Ivie in an e-mail to Science Careers.
"The low representation of women in physics starts much earlier than at the point of hire for physics departments as a whole.
The low representation of women in physics may not be benign (my personal opinion), but it is explainable at the higher levels of academe.
The low representation of female workers in most blue-collar occupations is also one of challenges that female workers have experienced (Browne 2002).
Due to the low representation of the female workers in blue-collar occupations, often times, they are depicted negatively in the media (Jhally and Alper 2005).
As a result, the planning of the participatory process did not incorporate social equity and led to a low representation of the interests of marginalized groups.
Few studies evaluating staff perception of NIDCAP exist, especially in Southern Europe, and these few studies usually have a low representation of the medical staff.
