Last night, I was watching a news piece off German public TV, and the topic was....why are there so few women in the Corona crisis teams (seen on TV)?
I sat there pondering upon this.
So if you went back to March 2020, and added up all the man-hours of public TV chatter with science folks, viral folks, and politicians, I would suggest that males made up 80-percent of the people you saw.
From the journalistic side or moderator side? it was probably 50-percent female.
I went looking. Generally, in all science fields....across the globe....only 30-percent of the folks are female.
In the biology field....near 60-percent are female.
As for the political side of this? Strictly by dumb luck....the chief ministries of the German government responsible for Covid crisis management, are male. It wasn't planned this way, but if you gaze across both the federal level and state levels....it's probably around 90-percent male.
Is this a big deal? Really, until someone made this observation, and time was wasted on discussing it....I hadn't really thought much about this.
It's like talking about taxi-drivers in Frankfurt, and 90-percent of them are male. Is this a problem?
It's also like talking about bartenders....where the general number is 60-percent female.....is that a problem?
Mass murderers? It's like 99-percent male....is that a problem?
The deaf-sign people who do the nightly news segment....it's overwhelmingly female (I would be guessing 80-percent or more)....is that a problem?
My impression is that we've reached the stage where there's not much news to tell, so new things to worry about....are being dragged out for you to consider.....to worry about.
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