Women Can’t Do That
This story was originally posted in 2010 on the elder Daisybrain blog. I now reprint it with statistical updates added at the end. Enjoy!
Recently, I visited cnn.com to be greeted by the top, front page, shocking story, “Woman Named Football Coach”! Just to alleviate any confusion, this wasn’t a story about a woman who was given the first name “Football” and the last name “Coach.” No, this was a ground-breaking story of apparently the first woman in history ever to have coached a high school boys football team. They weren’t talking about a pro-football team, or even a college team, but a high school team, which strikes me as something that should have been big news in 1959. But in 2010? Really?
This got me wondering how many other jobs out there are still ripe, in 2010, for a person to be the first woman to have.
The first thing that comes to mind is the almost complete lack of female game show hosts. I’m not saying that Game Show Host is something that anyone with much self respect would aspire to. But, there are certainly a lot of popular female celebrities, so why have so few of them hosted a game show?
President of the United States. OK, that one seems fairly obvious, but think about it: 44 presidents in a country with over 50% women and all have been men. Years ago, I was traveling across the country, when Geraldine Ferraro was…
