Re: 鈥淲omen leaders are no longer rare 鈥� and that鈥檚 equality,鈥� comment, March 24.
It is true that that about 20 years ago, the executive boardrooms of most public and private corporations were more like 鈥渂oys鈥� clubs鈥� 鈥� closed to women鈥檚 participation. However, the views expressed by the writer in her commentary are somewhat shortsighted and selective; they also do not align with the philosophy of Pearson College, where she made her selective observations following International Women鈥檚 Day.
She writes about wage inequity in which 鈥渨omen in Victoria earn, on average, 75 per cent of what men earn,鈥� but does not make any reference to the fact that there is significant lack of representation of Indigenous women and those of ethnic minorities in the leadership ranks. Is the equity that she is talking about limited only to the so-called 鈥減rivileged class鈥� of women of which she and others whom she named in her commentary are the members?
Indigenous women and those belonging to ethnic minorities deserve the same equitable representation and wage parity in the leadership ranks that the writer is alluding to for those of her own 鈥減rivileged class.鈥�
Paramjit S. Rana
Victoria
