It started with a seemingly innocuous tweet.
Jakob Kern, the World Food Program’s emergency coordinator in Ukraine, posted a photograph of his boss, David Beasley, alongside the global food agency’s staff in western Ukraine.
“The @WFP team in #Lviv #Ukraine,” the tweet, which was posted on Tuesday, said. “Dedicated and committed to support the civilians affected by the war.”‘
Kern’s tweet—which featured a photograph of Beasley, a former South Carolina governor who serves as WFP’s executive director, along with nine other male employees—seemed to anticipate what would come next, acknowledging that the “gender balance is not there yet. Female colleagues are being deployed in the next days.”
But those assurances were not sufficient to forestall a coming protest from the R
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