When women manage the city
Presumably because it’s International Women’s Day, La Presse interviews Dominique Ollivier, chairman of the city’s executive committee, where 13 of the 18 roles are now occupied by women. Ollivier talks about why women approach things differently.
Blork 17:39 on 2023-03-08 Permalink
IWD is such an odd thing. Not so long ago it was all about sending flowers to your secretary and taking your wife to dinner or whatever, and now it’s all about empowerment and equity (an improvement, if you ask me).
At work we’re running a sort of internal social media fundraiser where everyone is posting about the women who inspire them (it’s mostly people’s mothers, wives, and daughters, but there are a number of mentions of various women scientists, discoverers, politicians, etc.)
It’s interesting to see the various dynamics. For example, one person presented her daughter and said something along the lines of raising her to see that equity is normal and hopefully we won’t always need a special day to put half the population on a pedestal point to their inequity. Another person mentioned that the chief of the UN said today that in the past two decades we’ve actually gone backwards in many places and that they estimate we won’t see true equity for another 300 years.
So um. Happy IWD?