this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
98 points (100.0% liked)

News

1751 readers
6 users here now

Breaking news and current events worldwide.

founded 1 year ago
98
Japan Sends Man to G7 Meeting on Women’s Empowerment (time.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The incident highlights ongoing struggles with gender parity in Japan—which ranks lowest among G7 member states on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The optics in this case are bad enough that the downsides of sending a candidate chosen in a gender-neutral fashion outweigh the upsides, but I'd definitely advise being cautious about assuming that's always the case. If anything it's the exception, not the rule.

That's fair, but also beside the point. This isn't a conference on equality (which should have a fair number of male representatives). It's a conference on female empowerment. Yes most conferences of this nature shouldn't be female only, but this is a pretty obvious exception imo. So obvious, it's not really worth bringing up the alternative scenarios.