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Gender Quotas In the Financial Sector?
Real Clear Markets ^ | Thursday July 08, 2010 | Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Posted on 07/08/2010 11:41:56 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

What one finds when reading congressional legislation is invariably surprising. Take the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, for instance, which was created by merging Senate and House bills. When the Senate returns from recess one of its first actions will be to vote on the bill, which passed the House on June 30.

I was searching the bill for a provision about derivatives. What did I find but Section 342, which declares that race and gender employment ratios, if not quotas, must be observed by private financial institutions that do business with the government.

In a major power grab, the new law inserts race and gender quotas into America's financial industry.

In addition to this bill's well-publicized plans to establish over a dozen new financial regulatory offices, Section 342 sets up at least 20 Offices of Minority and Women Inclusion. This has had no coverage by the news media and has large implications.

The Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the 12 Federal Reserve regional banks, the Board of Governors of the Fed, the National Credit Union Administration, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...all would get their own Office of Minority and Women Inclusion.

Each office would have its own director and staff to develop policies promoting equal employment opportunities and racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of not just the agency's workforce, but also the workforces of its contractors and sub-contractors.

The mission, it says, is to assure "to the maximum extent possible the fair inclusion" of women and minorities, individually and through businesses they own, in the activities of the agencies, including contracting.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearmarkets.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banks; chrisdodd; economy; elections; financebankingbill; obama; wallstreet
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To: poobear

This just leads to manipulating the system with do-nothing wives who “own” business but husbands who rund the show.

How many local bank branches are all women staff?


21 posted on 07/08/2010 4:09:34 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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