[civsoc-mw] Women demo on equality.

Sat Oct 10 20:20:22 CAT 2020

TC,

I have said my part. I am contented and moving on to other issues.

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, 20:11 trevor chimimba, <trevorchimimba at gmail.com>
wrote:

> KPD,
>
> Let us stick for now to the boards. If the appointer had issued a clear
> policy direction before the process even began: I want all the boards to be
> 50/50. Otherwise I am not signing off anything that falls short of that.
> Those who would be on the search team would have no choice but to cast the
> net far and wide.
>
> And this dichotomy between merit and everything else is just some  false
> chauvinistic mirage.
>
>
> On Oct 10, 2020, at 2:01 PM, KPD <maluwakpd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> Ojaji,
>
> You are repeating this and it makes me worried.
>
> I have chaired staff appointment Committee and students selection
> committees.
>
> You are bringing something unheard of. On student selection the policy is
> to increase female students. Secondly to give preference or chance to
> applicants from disadvantaged communities.
>
> The obligation on our part is to advertise and then ONLY consider those
> who apply. For females and those from disadvantaged communities should meet
> minimum requirements and we consider them. For the rest we pick the best
> among applicants.
>
> Your seem to say, if females and those from disadvantaged communities
> don't apply then I am obligated to include those who never applied or shown
> interest.
>
> This is a first and surely exists in Thucandra. If you read Out of Silent
> Planet.
>
> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, 19:25 Dunstain Mwaungulu, <dfmwaungulu at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The legal duty is on the appointer, not us. The same earnest in filling
>> the vacancies should have been applied to ensure compliance with the Act.
>> Simple
>>
>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, 16:10 Keyboard Boyd Kilembey, <kkilembe at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mfana I am also afflicted that women are under represented just like
>>> senas, dwarfs, albinos, ex criminals etc. In the boards. But I would not
>>> advocate that any of the group is appointed solely based on the fact that
>>> he is an albino or a dwarf. Merit first. That is the same argument about
>>> women. It is not necessary for the cvs that I agree. But at least you can
>>> list names of women whom you felt were qualified but we're left out. You
>>> and the Jaji have until tomorrow to provide the list otherwise stop arguing
>>> in circles. For a start consider mathanga, Linda kunja, Jeff we Jeffrey,
>>> cash madam etc . Let me know which boards you think they can perfectly fit
>>> and deliver the mandate.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, 13:35 trevor chimimba, <trevorchimimba at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Keyboard,
>>>>
>>>> At least you are acknowledging that this is not about CVs!
>>>>
>>>> Some of you even have no shame blaming women for the loss of Joyce
>>>> Banda. Did you not hear that old man with a PhD from Yale go to town, with
>>>> his supporters, dropping those tropes: Malawi is not ready for a woman
>>>> president. And there he was recently again (during the campaign) suggesting
>>>> someone wanted to sleep her way to the top, as if anybody cared when he
>>>> said “he wants to marry a woman”!
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 10, 2020, at 6:39 AM, Keyboard Boyd Kilembey <kkilembe at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>> That is the point. It is called networking. Women should go out there
>>>> and network at moth club, blantyre sports club lilongwe golf club, etc
>>>> whete thete is the center of gravity. I had respect for roda mbilidzi. She
>>>> networkef well at blantyre sports club. She was not hiding herself in
>>>> kitches stuffed witj makala smoke
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, 12:31 trevor chimimba, <trevorchimimba at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Iwe (Key)board,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not even in that room where you are talking about CVs.
>>>>>
>>>>> When you look at the list of board members that was issued, do you
>>>>> even think gender consideration was even an issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> You can even see kuti iyi ndi yaku Blantyre Sports Club, Lilongwe Golf
>>>>> Club. Iyi Nde Moth!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Oct 10, 2020, at 6:13 AM, Keyboard Boyd Kilembey <
>>>>> kkilembe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > 
>>>>> > Mfana what is your suggestion, that we continue packing the boards
>>>>> with incompetent women ? I think you have little respect for women. I for
>>>>> one would like to see competent women into these boards even if all the men
>>>>> in the boards are incompetent. Why don't you want competent women in to
>>>>> these boards?
>>>>>
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