In America such quotas would be struck down because they disregard the right of male directors to equal treatment.

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" The court said, "Having granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over another.

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Opening the debate on 17 May 2010, the Parliament's rapporteur on the law, Luxembourg centre-right MEP Astrid Lulling said she had been calling for revision to equal treatment laws since the 1980s, when equality laws were first published.

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