For the number of times women were straight up erased from their scientific achievements I think we can keep choosing them to represent the team for a bit.
I’m fine with this.
As long as the team gets recognition in the more formal documents then let the media have whoever they’d like.
It’s like doing set up for a show. Let the headliner be the focus but acknowledging the people who made it happen is really nice.
This. Men got so angry when this story dropped and took personal offense to the fact a woman did something important and valuable. The amount of times women have had their work stolen and taken credit for by some bro far outweighs the recognition.
Or maybe attribute everyone equally - regardless of gender / sex, since that doesn’t matter to what they do? You don’t fix injustice with more injustice by skipping the contributions of other teams and only singleing her out.
Science is teamwork, but the contribution of different team members is usually not all the same. There’s no way for us to know who did most of the important work. We have to put trust in the team that they chose their representative fairly.