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[quote=Anonymous]For the purposes of this hypothetical, let’s make the facts more favorable to OP: well ignore that the author actually complained, ignore that she was a person of color, and we’ll assume they were co-authors. So basic facts are that OP is interviewing two co authors, a man and a woman.

As a professional marketer, OP would have to be living in a box to not know that men overtalk women, and men are given more talk time in professional settings, and that this perpetuates biases and opportunities.  And that media coverage of men and women has historically contributed to this problem.

I’m in a professional job that periodically puts me on panels and marketing materials, and I also get calls from the media sometimes. I am very aware that my firms marketing department makes decisions regarding staffing panels or quotes in press releases in part based on gender optics. That is, their decision to put me on a panel is sometimes driven to ensure that the panel is not all men. I also know that the cold calls I get from journalists are sometimes driven by them having a list of ten experts in my field, 8 of whom are men, and they are cognizant that they can’t always call men. Putting just men on the panel, or men in the article, perpetuates that only men are worth listening to. Media has made huge advances in the last ten years to reach out to a more varied list of interviewees instead of the same tired list of five expert males in any subject.

OP is bad at her job is she’s not aware of this. If her end product had the authors quoted anything less than 50/50, she should have noticed that as a problem before publishing. As others have said, OP should have managed the interview better to achieve that end product. [/quote]

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