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> the German Green party has a rule that only women can occupy the top position at various levels. Uh, no. The party is co-led by a man and a woman. The leade

> the German Green party has a rule that only women can occupy the top position at various levels. Uh, no. The party is co-led by a man and a woman. The leaders of their parliamentary group is a man and a woman. The Green Party minister-president of Baden Württemberg is a man. They do support quotas on executive boards, but that is a damn far cry from your claims of "only women can occupy the top position". Internally in the party, they strive towards a 50/50 quota, but it's not a strict policy and the actual membership composition varies between elections. > a university department in the EU announced that they will no longer hire males until they fulfil their quota. Which university and which department? Also, a single department at a single university does not a widespread policy make. Cite your sources.

blub 5y ago
I don't have enough interest in German politics to get into a deep discussion about it, but for the record I was referring to election lists and the "Mindestquotierung" where odd election list spots, including the first spot are reserved for women. This is confirmed for example by the situation in Saarland, where a man was chosen on the first spot. In the end there was so much pressure on that person from party colleagues (including one of the co-leads that you mentioned) that they had to step back, even if they had won fair and square. The party-internal positions are mostly irrelevant, as the male co-lead of the Greens has found out when they had to make place for the chancellorship candidacy for his equal footed colleague with no government experience. And Kretchmann is probably one of the most successful Greens, it would be political suicide not to let him run loose :) I don't remember which University, it was in a newspaper article. I have no idea if it's wide spread or not, the point was that the department(?) lead was comfortable not just mentioning, but advertising that practice in a newspaper, whereas the reverse would have gotten him in trouble immediately.

blub 5y ago

I don't have enough interest in German politics to get into a deep discussion about it, but for the record I was referring to election lists and the "Mindestquotierung" where odd election list spots, including the first spot are reserved for women. This is confirmed for example by the situation in Saarland, where a man was chosen on the first spot. In the end there was so much pressure on that person from party colleagues (including one of the co-leads that you mentioned) that they had to step back, even if they had won fair and square. The party-internal positions are mostly irrelevant, as the male co-lead of the Greens has found out when they had to make place for the chancellorship candidacy for his equal footed colleague with no government experience. And Kretchmann is probably one of the most successful Greens, it would be political suicide not to let him run loose :) I don't remember which University, it was in a newspaper article. I have no idea if it's wide spread or not, the point was that the department(?) lead was comfortable not just mentioning, but advertising that practice in a newspaper, whereas the reverse would have gotten him in trouble immediately.