I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, so here it goes.

It's not a reflection of the world at large, but it’s the world I work in.

I’m a civil servant, I work for the ministry of agriculture. Now, my minister (a Christian-Democrat, I'm a member of the Green party) is a very capable woman, married to another woman. And it is accepted. She often jokes that although she is the first female minister of agriculture in this country, the institution of the minister’s wife still stands.

Then the top of the department. Half of them women. One of them not pretty by traditional standards. All very capable.

 My boss. A brilliant woman that I adore. She is a very good boss, as reflected in very low rates of illness among my colleagues and my colleagues all successfully juggling work and family.

And then my colleagues. Fine people of different sexual orientations, different religious beliefs -if any. Getting along, getting the job done.

As much as there’s wrong in the world, in this part of my world something is right.

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