I was checking through my emails this minute and I was looking at the e-tender notifications about new projects etc.
One particular post caught my attention, which concerns me, which annoys me, which makes we worry that we are taking certain agendas to a stupid extreme.
Development programme targeted at female entrepreneurs in Irish rural areas
“The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland, intends issuing a public tender in 2016 for the provision (by one single service provider) of a national development programme targeted at nascent female entrepreneurs in Irish rural areas”
Programmes that encourage entrepreneurship in rural areas is a fantastic idea.
Programmes that encourage entrepreneurship in any areas is a fantastic idea.
Programmes that promote female entrepreneurship specifically are wrong, silly, discriminatory and it strikes me that we are totally losing the run of ourselves with the gender equality agenda.
The fantastic women that I work with every day don’t need any special “pass”.
It’s about ‘equality’ folks, not the opposite.
Greg Canty Fuzion Blog 