Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand PM yesterday.
London:
The BBC conceded Friday it was improper for writing about Jacinda Ardern’s shock resignation as prime minister of New Zealand with the headline: “Can girls have all of it?”
The since-deleted headline was posted Thursday on Twitter with a hyperlink to an article by BBC World, the UK broadcaster’s world newsroom.
Offended commentators contrasted it with BBC headline writers’ ungendered protection of male politicians together with Boris Johnson, the thrice-married father of seven who give up as UK prime minister final 12 months.
One labelled it “staggering sexism” whereas others accused the BBC of “misogyny”.
The headline was later modified to say: “Departure reveals distinctive pressures on PM.” The story talked about Ardern’s life as a working mom of a small youngster.
“We rapidly recognised the unique headline wasn’t appropriate for the story and adjusted it accordingly. We additionally deleted the related tweet,” a BBC spokesperson informed AFP.
The 42-year-old Ardern — who steered New Zealand by way of pure disasters, the Covid pandemic, and its worst-ever terror assault — stated she not had “sufficient within the tank”.
Whereas Ardern has not shied away from discussing the strains of workplace, she has been fast to shoot down sexist traces of questioning.
In November, at a joint information convention together with her Finnish counterpart Sanna Marin, they had been requested by a male journalist in the event that they had been assembly as a result of they had been “related in age and received a number of widespread stuff there”.
Referring to former US and New Zealand leaders, Ardern queried “whether or not or not anybody ever requested Barack Obama and John Key in the event that they met as a result of they had been of comparable age?”
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