“What’s the point of all that International Women’s Day? There’s no International Men’s Day. We’ve got 70 staff and only five are women,” boasts the boss of one construction firm, his breath thick with lager and truffled canapes.
“Mind you, we have got that Portuguese one,” a colleague chimes in.
MIPIM, the property industry’s annual jamboree on the French Riviera, is said to have cleaned up its act, especially in the wake of last year’s Presidents Club scandal. It seems not everybody has got the memo.
