BBC

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I had a fairly heated late night debate with friends (male) recently.

I argued that the BBC, as it is publicly funded, should be expected to have equality of the sexes in every area.

Employment
Sport on TV / Radio
Stereotypes and depiction of negative ones
Casting - new stuff should, over the whole output, have equal m/f roles.

Why is this not the case? Is the BBC aiming for this?

Or would the public not tolerate it and flee to online media as my friend argued. He was particularly exercised (Ha!) about sport - not wanting to lose male sport to make room for women.

Thoughts?

Mandatory equality in every area of programming is unrealistic and silly.

Broad equality of the sexes across the whole range of output is reasonable, if not imperative.

The BBC is now and always has been a biased company full of very white, very male people in top jobs.
Nothing is going to change that.

And they are addressing diversity issues... by having a high percentage of TQ+ identified people! sarcasm

I have noticed in children’s programming (Ceebies) that is is increasing ethinical diverse and often has children with disabilities. This is all good. The number of male and female people are broadly until it comes to cartoons when male characters out number the female characters and the male characters get all the good jobs.

What about sport though? Is it enough to state that people don't want women's sport so it is not shown?

As a public broadcaster they should be leading, not following.

Yes, there is increasing equality and diversity in using BME, disabled presenters. But not women - yet.