A picture is worth a thousand words, they say*. This one is about today's meeting between our Dear Leader and the so-called Freedom Caucus, an arch-conservative wing of the Republican Party which wants freedom for themselves only. A central topic in the meeting:
Whether or not maternity care and mammograms should be considered "essential" treatments covered by all health insurance policies under the Republican proposal. ("I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms," quipped Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who supports scrapping the requirement. He apologized.)
The probability of breast cancer in that particular room is, of course, lower than the probability of prostate cancer.
It would be hard to find a better example why diversity in the corridors of power is important.
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* We are so inured seeing men as the default humanity that a picture of a large demonstration or protest in the Middle East, say, showing nothing but men is routinely captured as "people protesting/demonstrating." And we are certainly extremely accustomed to seeing only men in most pictures depicting people in power, with a few exceptions (such as Angela Merkel) who stick out because of being exceptions.
In the US this homogeneity also has a racial and ethnic characteristic. But women tend to be absent in most countries of the world when power is depicted. A few examples:
From China:
And from Saudi Arabia (about the founding of an organization to help young girls be their best):
