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Photo: Screenshot / Michael Bröcker / Twitter
A photo taken at a luncheon hosted by business leaders on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference provoked a lot of criticism on social media.
You can see a large table at which around 30 middle-aged men are having a business lunch together – not a single woman among them.
The editor-in-chief of "The Pioneer", Michael Bröcker, had spread the photo on Twitter on Saturday.
It was initially unclear when exactly the picture was taken.
According to information from this year's Munich Security Conference, the proportion of women among speakers in the main program is 45 percent.
In the group of top managers represented at the conference, the relationship is obviously different.
The SPD politician Sawsan Chebli tweeted: »This picture is like from another world.
But it's not a different world.
It's reality in 2022. This is what the CEO Lunch at #MSC2022 looks like.
Here is power and here women are missing.
We still have a lot to do.«
Joe Kaeser, former CEO of Siemens, who can also be seen in the photo, was self-critical: "We'll do it better next year," he wrote.
"I'll bring this up at the MSC Advisory Committee's feedback meeting tomorrow." Chebli promptly replied, "I have a few ideas."
The photo was also criticized because the managers sat close together despite the corona pandemic.
Kaeser wrote: »There is 2G+ and PCR test every morning BEFORE the sessions start.
Otherwise it would actually be irresponsible.«
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