Striking

Consider the gender of every person in this photo:

Is there still some way to go before we have gender equality, do you think?

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townmouse Says:
October 16th, 2009 at 8:42 am
It would help if Mr Merkel (I know it’s not his real name) showed up for these things, but I expect he’s a bit bored of the shopping-and-orphanage type visits they arrange for the spouses on these events.

I did notice there were more than 20. Have some of them (Berlusconi?) got more than one wife?
Sarah Says:
October 16th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I was also going to say that Herr Merkel was missing, but then I also remembered that he’s not called Merkel.

One google later and I now I know his name is Joachim Sauer and that he’s a Professor at the Humboldt University. I imagine his quantum chemistry research is considerably more interesting than posing for photo shoots.

Now I’m off to google the wives to see if they have/had more interesting jobs.
belgianwaffle Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 10:15 pm
I’d forgotten about Herr Merkel. Sarah, did you find out anything about the wives?