September 21, 2000 at 12:00 am #15107
Kent
Member
What you observe is not practiced outside the United States. CNBC Asia – an English-language program for Asia and Australia – uses both men and women of all races. The United States seems to be very backward compared to Europe, Asia or Australia, preferring men to women as TV authority figures; and I assume network figures worry about Asian men, by virtue of their gender, being seen to be in authority. Presumably they feel Asian women, of the subsidiary gender, carry little threat to the audience.