Any mechnaical division, if consistently coerced, can achieve parity, but what then?
you call introducing legally enforced parity as "coerced"????or I misinterpreted what you were trying to say.
It will bring into politics women who aren't really cut out for the line of work, without broad vision and a sense of public service.
It may, or it may not. It is hard to say at the moment, but I bet there are as many male politicians who should stay at home instead of offering their services to the country. Are you saying that all male politicians are excellent ones? Or I, again, have misinterpreted what you were trying to convey in your post?
That is true of any artifical leftist utopian schemes,
You call scandinavian democracies UTOPIAN, because those countries have the highest degree of parity not only in the government but in all aspects of life?
be it the point system in PRL, where chidlren of peasnats and workers had it easier getting accepted to university,
That was the case in Poland during the communist time where children of peasants had a chance for education - simple human rights case, although as you suggested: peasants should stay in the fields and woman at home. Or, again, have I misinterpreted what you were trying to convey?
or affrirmative action programmes in the USA which pushed racial minorities through school despite their poor performance.
all of them were performing poorly? Are you saying that ONLY white race can perform. I bet if you belonged to a different race, you would be singing a different song.
I think that your views are rather outdated, but everyone has the right to express their opinions.
SO, back to the topic: I believe that Polish woman deserve the parity since they make up half of the population in Poland.
quote from this site:
Political Empowerment
Women in Poland gained the right to vote and run for office in 1918. Women attained their highest numbers in Sejm (Poland's Parliament) from 1980 to 1985, when they represented 23% of parliamentarians. After the 2005 elections, women's representation dropped. While the number of women parliamentarians remained at a similar level to the previous term's (94), the number of women in the Senate went from 23 to 13, resulting in Poland placing much lower, 49th
(out of 139) in the Inter-Parliamentary Union's worldwide ranking (IPU).wikigender.org/index.php/Poland
So in 1918 women HAD the power to vote and run for the office, so it has been almost a 100 years since then - that is a LONG time. I would say that achieving parity is the next step to Polish democracy. I might not agree with the legal side of it, but : cel uswieca srodki.