10 June 2015, 12.30 pm
Our Chief Shouty Person Mr Lampert, and his Assistant Shouty Person Ms Hill, come to disturb my lunch break. They tell me The Guardian has been in touch, asking for our thoughts as to why there are so few women on the nominations list for the EPO’s European Inventor of the Year award. I tell them We do not talk to left-wing journalists, and return to my sandwich. But they are not going to let it rest. They say We must be able to shout something. That’s what we do. We shout. I sigh and put down my sandwich. So far as I can see, there are relatively few potential explanations for there not being many women on the EPO’s list:
None of these is going to be particularly palatable as a message to mainstream media, I suspect. Certainly Mr Lampert and Ms Hill look distinctly unimpressed. In the end we decide to frame our response around the namby-pamby diversity work. Only we do not mention the slug metaphor.
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