Canada: This Politician Quit His Job to Help Make Room For Women

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2016-06-07 09:19

Article here. Excerpt:

'An Ontario cabinet minister announced on Monday that he would be stepping aside in order to make room for women, in an attempt to help his premier meet gender parity in her government.

But given that Ontario's cabinet is just 25 percent female, there's still a long way to go.

Ted McMeekin, a longtime provincial politician and currently the minister of municipal affairs and housing, made the announcement on Facebook, ahead of an anticipated cabinet shuffle in Canada's largest province.

"Like our Prime Minister, I've never been afraid to call myself a feminist. In fact, I've always been proud of being an honorary member of the Women's Caucus, and working for equality," he said in the statement. "But sometimes the best way for a man to advance the equality of women may be to step back and make room at the table. For me, this is such a time."'

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... select themselves out of the political landscape.

For an encore, he jumped off a cliff as a means of freeing up more air so women could have more of it to breathe.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2016-06-07 19:02