There are no women that are major game show hosts. Great Britain was the first to do that.
After Julia Child, there are fewer women that are "master chefs" despite the fact that cooking tends to be a female job.
There are no women that say the primetime news. That is up to Tom, Charlie, Dan and the ABC guy I can't remember.
The major make-up artists are men, beginning with Max Factor in the 1950s.
But if there is a disaster, the normal thing to do is get the "women and children" out first. Somehow, women and children are more prized. If there is a massacre in history, it is noted separately "women and children were killed." Women are not made to sign up for the draft. (I know the normal reasons, but it is an example for this particular argument.)
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In this context, I wouldn't say women are more "prized", exactly. Rather, they're viewed as being as weak and helpless as children, so that's why they get the extra mention in the history books' accounts of massacres and wars and whatnot. Big bad (male) soldiers killing poor defenseless women and children is shocking and appalling. Like that one scene in Henry V where the French kill all the English kids at the battle of Agincourt.
But what about Cokie Roberts, Connie Chung, and Barbara Walters? They do pretty cool newsy stuff, too.
But, yes, I agree that women don't get as much play on the TV as men. Don't get paid as much, neither.
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