There's a fascinating study done on Swedish elections over the years - Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man
The title sums up the paper well .....says have some quotas and the mediocre men disappear .......but also raised the overall competence of those remaining
One conclusion was the higher the competence of its leaders, the more likely a party was to win an election. Mate Jacinda should portray Bill as wet behind the years and useless and casually mention the concept of mediocre men (seeing Nats are likely to have the lowest proportion of females in their caucus)
“ At the top of every bubble, everyone is convinced it's not yet a bubble.”
There's a fascinating study done on Swedish elections over the years - Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man
The title sums up the paper well .....says have some quotas and the mediocre men disappear .......but also raised the overall competence of those remaining
One conclusion was the higher the competence of its leaders, the more likely a party was to win an election. Mate Jacinda should portray Bill as wet behind the years and useless and casually mention the concept of mediocre men (seeing Nats are likely to have the lowest proportion of females in their caucus)
Never counted because I think gender is irrelevant, but Amy Adams, Paula Bennett, Niki Kaye, Ann Tolley, Jacqui Dean, Maggie Barry - come to mind. There's a whole heap more.
Never counted because I think gender is irrelevant, but Amy Adams, Paula Bennett, Niki Kaye, Ann Tolley, Jacqui Dean, Maggie Barry - come to mind. There's a whole heap more.
W69 was talking about competence, not gender. Why did you have to mention Paula "Hyperbowl" Bennett, FP?
Twyford says house prices to income should be about 4 times but doesn't has any answers
He (and Labour) need to recognise there is 'bubble' and be honest that such ratios are an impossibility unless we have one big bust. Labour don't seem that keen on building public rentals - that would make it get more people in 'decent' homes
“ At the top of every bubble, everyone is convinced it's not yet a bubble.”
Twyford says house prices to income should be about 4 times but doesn't has any answers
He (and Labour) need to recognise there is 'bubble' and be honest that such ratios are an impossibility unless we have one big bust. Labour don't seem that keen on building public rentals - that would make it get more people in 'decent' homes
Twyford is clueless. Cost of housing is a huge factor - not just the price. When we have fallen from interest rates of 20% plus, to current levels - guess what happens? Fungus's first rule of real estate economics states that house prices and interest rates are the opposite ends of a see-saw. Median house prices will always settle around the average of an affordable mortgage. That is why the best time to buy is when interest rates are sky-high. $600k at 6% costs the same as $300k at 12%, but 12% leaves the buyer with a lower debt.
Read the last line of w69s quote. And if you are concerned about pronunciation, please teach Jacinda Adern how to pronounce 'women'.
"Wimmin" / "woman" eeether/eyether are acceptable under the NZ English register! Unless you want NZ English to adopt the French system by having an academy of learneds dictating what is acceptable....
The AkUni rag Craccum used to have a column called "Lettuce to the editor" to reflect NZ pronunciation.
If interest rates are low, LVR rates should be higher so that when/if rates head higher and the next recession comes along , recent buyers are not stuck with large amounts of negative equity.
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"Wimmin" / "woman" eeether/eyether are acceptable under the NZ English register! Unless you want NZ English to adopt the French system by having an academy of learneds dictating what is acceptable....
The AkUni rag Craccum used to have a column called "Lettuce to the editor" to reflect NZ pronunciation.
There is one correct pronunciation of the plural word 'women' and that is wimmin, as any dictionary you care to refer to will confirm.
There is nothing more offensive to my ears to hear such remarks as 'all the woman in the room'. Aderne is not the only MP to offend, but she is the most frequently heard.
Twyford is clueless. Cost of housing is a huge factor - not just the price. When we have fallen from interest rates of 20% plus, to current levels - guess what happens? Fungus's first rule of real estate economics states that house prices and interest rates are the opposite ends of a see-saw. Median house prices will always settle around the average of an affordable mortgage. That is why the best time to buy is when interest rates are sky-high. $600k at 6% costs the same as $300k at 12%, but 12% leaves the buyer with a lower debt.
Fungus's theorem doesn't stack up though, does it.
Since 2009, interest rates have been fairly constant, and normal CPI and wage inflation has been low. House prices have not settled down. And the only reason for that change has been net migration increases, and a shortage of houses. So according to your theory, when that major external effect changes, since houses are now less affordable than they were, at current prices and interest rates - house prices must decrease when immigration needs get below the rate at which houses are being built. Or, interest rates have to decrease, or wages go up.
There is one correct pronunciation of the plural word 'women' and that is wimmin, as any dictionary you care to refer to will confirm.
There is nothing more offensive to my ears to hear such remarks as 'all the woman in the room'. Aderne is not the only MP to offend, but she is the most frequently heard.
I have been brought up hearing "woman." There are different registers for language as well as pronunciation...
Your ears would take a battering travelling around the UK and the USA!
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