Where are the women in the coronavirus 'war room'?
On the government response to the coronavirus crisis, the former cabinet minister Amber Rudd tweeted: 鈥淒uring Gov briefings am I the only one thinking 鈥榳here are all the women?鈥� Why are there no senior women in the 鈥渨ar cabinet鈥� or used to convey those critical messages? Equality means better decisions. Don鈥檛 pack the women away during a crisis.鈥� Many were quick to reply that this was no time for quotas and that ability matters more than equality. But what are the problems with not including the different perspectives and lived experiences of women in decision making?
Jane Garvey speaks to Amber Rudd as well as Caroline Criado-Perez, the author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, and Simone Schnall, Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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