‘Inaccurate, divisive’: British TV present roasted after utilizing gender of world leaders to clarify contrasting Covid-19 loss of life tolls

A British morning tv present suffered a backlash from viewers after utilizing unfair comparisons to recommend international locations with feminine leaders have completed a greater job than their male counterparts to suppress coronavirus deaths.

Good Morning Britain (GMB) – an ITV program steadily fronted by Piers Morgan – requested its viewers on Wednesday whether or not ladies are higher leaders, claiming “few international locations” with females on the helm “have excessive coronavirus loss of life charges.” 

In an try to again up that declare, they produced a graphic with British PM Boris Johnson and US President Donald Trump collectively on one aspect with their international locations’ giant Covid-19 loss of life tolls vs. the feminine leaders of New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, and Taiwan with their comparatively low fatalities from the illness.

They advised that ladies have the innate capacity to indicate extra empathy than males, which has helped them to make the suitable calls whereas combating the outbreak.

ITV Information graphic compares how female and male leaders have managed the pandemic pic.twitter.com/wzexZv3g9C

— Chris McShane (@ChrisMcSh) Could 27, 2020

The blunt measure to match coronavirus deaths between female- and male-led international locations, with out giving weight to components akin to inhabitants measurement and density, angered many on social media. 

Moreover, this system’s selective evaluation omitted Belgium, led by Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes, which has suffered terribly throughout the pandemic with one of many highest Covid-19 mortality charges on the planet. 

British creator Peter Lloyd hit out at GMB for singling out gender as a doable clarification for the success or failure of governments world wide to take care of the lethal virus, saying, “you wouldn’t have the braveness to ask the identical query in reverse.”

Throughout a debate on the problem, journalist Ella Whelan instructed GMB that stereotyping ladies as “good” and “caring” is sexist, including: “There’s this normal sense that having a bit extra lipstick within the room makes issues higher.”

Are ladies higher leaders?

'The way in which through which leaders act shouldn't be all the way down to their gender.'

Journalist @Ella_M_Whelan says stereotyping ladies as 'good' and 'caring' is sexist and they need to be handled as people and judged on particular person actions. pic.twitter.com/9YhM7tTYGl

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) Could 27, 2020

One commenter on Twitter accused the morning present of manufacturing “inaccurate, divisive, prejudiced propaganda.” Others highlighted Canada and Australia as examples of nations led by males with comparatively low Covid-19 deaths.

Information revealed on Monday by the European Centre for Illness Prevention and Management (ECDC) confirmed that the UK has recorded the best Covid-19 deaths per million based mostly on a seven-day rolling common (four.54), carefully adopted by Sweden, Brazil, and the US.

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