Is Micheál listening to Mark?
Let’s be honest, when Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest and most powerful people in the world, tells Joe Rogen, one of the most popular and influential podcast hosts in the world, that companies need more ‘masculine energy,’ he is saying they need more men. And this is at a time when 90% of Fortune 500 CEOs are men, hardly an indication that our society has become very ‘neutered or emasculated’. His comments, clearly gender-based dog whistling, suggest that so-called masculine values are being threatened and a little reminder, as if we needed it, that power unchecked, will always seek to maintain and defend itself at the expense of progress.Closer to home, we see that yesterday Micheál Martin announced his new cabinet: three women ministers out of a total of fifteen. A reduction of one. Not a huge decrease you may say, but significant all the same. Let’s hope, he’s not singing to Zuckerberg’s songbook.