Ahead of Friday’s nomination deadline, more than half of governments in the European Union have put forward only one male candidate to join Ursula von der Leyen’s leadership team – despite her request for a male and female candidate to achieve gender parity. If the nominations do not change, men could make up around two thirds of the new European Commission cabinet. After her reelection in July, von der Leyen, the commission’s president, asked EU countries to nominate both a man and a woman in order to achieve a gender balance in the commission. The only exception granted to this request was f…