The best editor of this newspaper

We read in the ARA The number of female managers in France has been steadily increasing, thanks to the law that requires companies with more than 1,000 employees to have at least 30% women on their management and executive committees. By 2029, the percentage of female managers must reach 40%.

I'm lucky enough to write for a newspaper, a print newspaper, edited by a woman. She's one of the few in Europe. Esther Vera is our Katharine Graham. I've known her for many years, since her days of writing political columns that were groundbreaking. Neither she nor Graham are a quota. Among potential editors, they are the best. There's no doubt about it. Just as there's no doubt that Esther Vera will want to kill me for writing this in the newspaper she edits.

We often talk about work-life balance, about whether men tend to sacrifice family life for work and women don't as much. This is probably the case in many instances and may explain why there are fewer women in management positions. But what if many women don't want to be managers? I understand campaigns to encourage more girls to pursue science because most study the humanities, but I can't help thinking that nothing bad would happen if more women dedicated themselves to the humanities because they enjoy it. I'm an example of this. I'm very happy dedicating myself to this privileged and entirely useless profession, which I do not because I'm a woman but because I'm a writer, never forgetting for a moment that tomorrow I could lose the favor of my readers, who are sovereign.

There are many jobs where women still have no female role models, or very few; for example, winemaking, running a newspaper, religious services, and coaching soccer. Not long ago, there weren't any in politics either (it hasn't been that long since we've been able to vote). Now we have women leading political parties and running for president. These women have risen without quotas, and most of them—liberals—are against it. I'm very pleased that, coincidentally, the person who runs this newspaper is, besides being the best, a woman.