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The core question is whether these are applied uniformly. In the specific case at hand, only the woman's gender was emphasized. We're the questioner to have ide
by dgacmu 10y ago
The core question is whether these are applied uniformly. In the specific case at hand, only the woman's gender was emphasized. We're the questioner to have identified everyone prefixed by their gender, it would have seemed weird, but not biased per se.
There's also a question of whether it's contextually relevant. In this case, the question had everything to do with her CFO-ness and nothing to do with her gender. In a different context, it might have made sense to direct a question to someone on the board specifically because of their gender or race. But this wasn't such a context.
- projektir 10y agoWell, if someone says "the CFO", many people will automatically assume the CFO in question is male. The gender may be emphasized to avoid that assumption. The article, as it is written, doesn't do a very good job of presenting the context. Without additional context, I very much doubt the investor was trying to be sexist or offensive with their statement, and I don't think they deserve such a backlash. It's picking at straws. The investor is human, too. There are better targets.