Netflix Hides all the Women in F1 Show

[d000hg]

There are several lady engineers in the various crews if you look, plus at least one working on the pit wall on strategy.

exactly - out of thousands of people there are a handful of women if you look closely (actually I think in absolute terms there are a lot it's just small as a %). Plus often they are shorter so blocked from view in photos!

Perhaps the issue with F1 is the fact it's sold as a sport, not a seriously complex, advanced engineering environment.

Surely anyone who's into engineering knows exactly how demanding F1 is, just as people interested in sports science know how much is involved in football? You don't see women not work in football in this area to anything like the same degree.
I think more women like sport than engineering so would this put people off? Motorsport is very male-dominated on the driving/sporting side so maybe it's seen as a "male job" (engineering) in a very male-dominated sport and that is off-putting to all but the hardcore.

[malvolio]

There are several lady engineers in the various crews if you look, plus at least one working on the pit wall on strategy.

An old friend - small, blonde, pretty and slightly mad - has a Masters in engineering and is currently the MOD's go to person for advanced composite materials in high-stress environments. I really doubt she is the only one in what is seen as a male province. Perhaps the issue with F1 is the fact it's sold as a sport, not a seriously complex, advanced engineering environment.

[Paddy]

Not an F1 fan but in the day when I did club motorsport, what few women participated were more than welcomed. It's just that no many women are interested.
Great respect to this wonderful lady Sabine RIP.

[Lockhouse]

They had women in F1. They got rid of the pit lane girls, remember?

[d000hg]

Claire Williams was quite heavily featured before leaving the team.

Shush, we don't want facts to get in the way.

(and yes, she is great. I was sad she/the family were sidelined and then left)

[d000hg]

The C4 sponsor for the F1 show (Bristol Street?) has the right idea, in their advert they have a row of men lined up at the back and a woman pushed right up close to the camera mostly blocking them. Presumably so you notice they have one (just the one though).

[TheDude]

Claire Williams was quite heavily featured before leaving the team.

[vetran]

Try Specsavers, I see four in the second row from the top. Although the fourth from the right on the second row may be a tail identifying as a no-tail.

I call tail!

[Zigenare]

no its a lie I see three ladies (maybe identifying as men) in the second row.

Try Specsavers, I see four in the second row from the top. Although the fourth from the right on the second row may be a tail identifying as a no-tail.

[vetran]

Well they haven't set any diversity targets they are all young-middle aged white men.

no its a lie I see three ladies (maybe identifying as men) in the second row.

[Protagoras]

The younger women engineers I know work, or are seeking work, preferentially in areas that positively contribute towards the tackling climate change. They head for renewables and infrastructure type work.

Maybe female engineers don't see F1 as an attractive proposition?

[vetran]

Well they haven't set any diversity targets they are all young-middle aged white men.

[d000hg]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-64826799
Drive to Survive: Netflix F1 show criticised for lack of women

Utterly outraged. Possibly even triggered. In the current series F1TS does not show a single female F1 driver or F1 team principle. And they shoot it deliberately to make it seem like virtually all the engineers are men as well! They suggest most of the women in the teams are there doing makeup or PR or PA jobs.

But it goes deeper, because watching F1 coverage over the last few years they consistently portray the sport as intensely male-dominated. It must be collusion. Probably to avoid upsetting the Saudis.

As Toto Wolff's wife says:

How should a young girl, who's eight, and maybe loves F1, how can she visualise herself getting into that paddock if she can't even see participation or women working in the paddock

Quite so. Just because there are no women drivers or team bosses, and no women in top-level roles within the management of the sport, it's unacceptable that none are shown on TV.