Tokyo Olympics Chief Suggests Limits for Women at Meetings
Tokyo Olympics Chief Suggests Limits for Women at Meetings
Yoshiro Mori, a former prime minister of Japan, said regulating women’s speaking time was needed “or else we’ll never be able to finish.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/sports/olympics/tokyo-olympics-yoshiro-mori.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=890264346&impression_id=d33f28c7-66ce-11eb-84f9-5180d47e0d77&index=7&pgtype=Article®ion=footer&req_id=546901800&surface=most-popular-story&variant=0_bandit-all-surfaces
Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, already facing rising costs and significant public opposition to this summer’s Games, faced a new furor on Wednesday after the president of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested women talk too much in meetings.
-----------------
“On boards with a lot of women, the board meetings take so much time,” Mr. Mori, 83, said to laughter, according to a report in the Asahi Shimbun, one of the country’s largest daily newspapers. “Women have a strong sense of competition. If one person raises their hand, others probably think, I need to say something too. That’s why everyone speaks.”
Mr. Mori, a former prime minister, was responding to a question asking him to comment on the Olympic committee’s plan to increase the number of women board members to more than 40 percent of the total.
-----------
On Twitter, users quickly began calling for Mori to resign. Others suggested Mori’s age, and his outdated attitude, were the real problem.
At a news conference on Thursday, Mr. Mori said he had no intention of resigning. “I recognize the remark was against the spirit of Olympics and Paralympics,” he said. “I deeply regret what I said.” Mr. Mori said he wanted to retract his remarks, and he apologized “to those who felt uncomfortable.”
= new reply since forum marked as read
A meeting full of all men always goes quickly and no one ever needs to interject their opinions to make the meeting run long. And no form of mansplaining ever occurs.
