{Image via Time Magazine}
Pope Francis was recently named TIME Magazine’s 2013 Person of the Year. And a few days ago TIME released a response addressing why a man was repeatedly chosen for the honor. Since 1927, when Man of the Year started, only a handful of women have been given the title. The title has now been changed to Person of the Year, but it seems that the change was in vain.
Last year when President Obama beat activist Malala Yousafzai for 2012’s Person of the Year, the responses were definitely shocked and mixed. And while she was featured in many “influential” TIME articles throughout the year, it isn’t the same as being named Person of the Year.
In TIME’s response, where are the women of the year?, it’s highlighted that women are not often in the positions that the Person of the Year franchises. It’s often presidents and CEOS, which women are almost never.
There are many reasons for this, maybe because some people think feminism is the new f-word, maybe because women apologize too much, or maybe just because we just don’t want to be equal to men.
{Image via Esquire}
So while it probably makes sense, statistically, that there are less than five women-only Person of the Year winners. But it probably also irks some of us that Emily Ratajkowski, the “Blurred Lines” girl (yes, the hot one), beat Jennifer Lawrence for Esquire’s Woman of the Year.
Since The Representation Project’s ‘How Media Failed Women in 2013’ video has gone viral and most of us have already watched it, did media fail women? Did TIME fail women? Or is it truly just an unfortunate game of statistics?
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