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Katarzyna Kotula, until recently the Minister of Equality, boasted that the Sejm had voted for the Women on Board directive, which will force listed companies to introduce gender parity on supervisory boards. And here, the justifications are the most interesting, because both Ms. Kotula herself claims that more women on supervisory boards will simply lead to companies being better managed. But also, on the website of this entire initiative, it is directly stated that women are more competent and better prepared to sit on supervisory boards than men, because they constitute the majority of business graduates. And even abstracting from the fact that this is simply flawed logic, because demographic proportions in a given group do not at all imply that a narrow margin of the most competent people in that group will have the same demographic proportions, but additionally, their argumentation assumes that the largest companies in Poland cannot choose sufficiently competent people for their own management and that they are losing out because of it. It is directly stated that these companies will achieve better results when they are forced to hire women for supervisory boards. In other words, that the largest companies in Poland cannot maximize their profits through optimal organization, but only central planning must ensure this for them. The claim that the free market cannot maximize company profits, but some party committee must improve it in this regard, is an ideologically motivated absurdity, argued, as we have seen, with flawed logic. But that's not all, because additionally, this entire situation is another good example that all these caviar feminists from Ms. Kotula's ideological circle are not an environment that primarily acts in the interest of their gender, but in the interest of their social class. After all, no woman working as a cashier at Żabka, or unable to find a nursery in a small town, or barely making ends meet because her ex-partner doesn't pay alimony. None of these women will be better off because corporations will have parity on supervisory boards. Rich, educated women from the management cadre will be better off, because they will have an additional opportunity for earnings, even if their current qualifications did not allow for it, because now companies will have to hire them for these supervisory boards and compensate them for it. This type of caviar feminism of people like Ms. Kotula does not care about making things better for women as a whole, but about making things better for a certain margin of the most privileged women, who are already doing much better than the rest of society. And how do they justify the need to improve their fate? Because in this wealthiest stratum, there are proportionally more men. Notice how often this is cited as the reason for the necessity of these changes. Oh, because the majority of directors are men, because the majority of millionaires are men, the majority of MPs, the majority of professors, and the social strata lower than this very peak simply do not interest them. M.