I simply cannot with France right now

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/15/paris-city-hall-fined-for-putting-too-many-women-in-senior-roles

Because there are (too many) people arguing in the mentions about why this is a problem: Women are a long-marginalized group. The parity law was meant to address the dominance of men. Telling women "you are allowed this much -- 50% and *no more* -- is further marginalizing.

The law in question, the Savaudet law, is designed to make men and women get equal access to political positions. Making women stay at 50% of political appointees is not equality. It would be true equality if women were 90%+, as men have always been.

https://blogs.eui.eu/genderquotas/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/Executive-summary-France-Lepinard.pdf

Oh, "90% is not equal," you say? Yes.

Welcome to 10,000 years of male-dominated human history passed off incorrectly as a meritocracy. How obvious the bias, misogyny and chauvinism becomes when any other group starts to gain the same numbers white Christian men always had.

A law limiting women at 50% of political appointments is only a hand up for a few years, then it fills its true function of being a boot stepping down on women's progress into leadership. We're at that point now.