Is Maryland Insurance Admin'n leadership a ‘girls-only’ club?

Article here. Excerpt:

'Is executive-level leadership at the Maryland Insurance Administration a “girls-only” club, virtually excluding men who are hired or promoted to top posts at the state government agency a mere 8% of the time?

Under Commissioner Goldsmith, the organization chart published by MIA or posted on the state website shows 22 total positions available, including deputy and associate commissioners, and their immediate support staff.

Of those 22 available positions, one is vacant. Of the remaining 21 positions, 18 are filled by women and three by men. One of the men is technically part of the state attorney general’s office, which means of the 21 positions directly under and appointed by the insurance commissioner, 18 are filled by women and two by men.

That’s an executive-level staffing ratio of 87% women and 13% men.

Surely, you say, many of those are holdovers from previous administrations.

Not so. Since Goldsmith took office in 2011, there has been more than a 50% turnover or promotion rate at the MIA at the executive or division head level, according to information posted on the state’s website.

Since 2011, Goldsmith made 12 executive level appointments and promotions. Of those 12, all were women except one: Goldsmith appointed or promoted women to top executive level positions 92% of the time, and appointed or promoted men only 8% of the time.

A deliberate employment practice, or coincidence?

Apparently, at least a few individuals felt strongly enough about the disparate gender staffing to contact this website.'