Panel set to give ‘a man’s point of view’ on women canceled – By Associated Press / Oct 24 2017
MAPLE SHADE, N.J. – A New Jersey-based magazine owned by women has canceled a women’s empowerment panel following criticism because the participants were all men.
SJ Magazine had titled the panel that was set to include four men as “Women in Business: A man’s point of view.”
The magazine says it believes it is “helpful when everyone is part of the conversation on women’s empowerment and feminism.”
But the magazine says it was never its intention to offend anyone with the Nov. 6 event
Criticism against the panel was harsh on social media. The magazine explained three other panels were composed of all women and said it wanted to start a discussion with men.
One of the participants, New Jersey Democratic Assemblyman Lou Greenwald, had decided to withdraw because of the panel’s composition.
PB/TK – A group of men discussing women empowerment just doesn’t seem right, now had the woman’s magazine put women on the panel there may not have been such outcry
