Shark Week not diverse enough - study

The popular Discovery program features more commentators named ‘Mike' than women, and over 90% are white
The Discovery Channel's ‘Shark Week', a 34-year-old initiative showcasing the marine predator and the people who study it, is overwhelmingly white, according to a group of researchers. They published their conclusions with the Public Library of Science last month - and they're not talking about the sharks.
Not only did the programming feature far more male experts and commentators than female - already a red flag in a field that currently consists of more than 50% women - it actually included more men named “ Mike ” than women at all, the researchers found. Over 90% of the 229 experts who featured in the episodes they watched were white.
“ When there are hundreds of people of color interested who work in this field, when my field is more than half women, maybe it's not an accident anymore that they're only featuring white men ,” Arizona University conservationist and study co-author David...

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