Article here and video of exchange here. He spoke to her like she was a piece of shit IN FRONT OF ALL HER COLLEAGUES AND CAMERAS. Unacceptable, inexcusable behaviour from him and I’m so glad her sisters stood up for her!
Who here would have walked out too?
That is a pretty degrading view of Thai people in general there. It’s also outdated.
The Thai prime minister from 2010-2014, depicted here…
…(that’s correct: a woman in the highest elected post before the USA has had one!) shepherded equity laws the first of which became the law of the land in 2015: The Gender Equality Act. (This after she was ousted for corruption—and on the face of it it was a fair ousting—so apparently gender equity in Thailand was important enough that even after the female prime minister’s ouster they kept it going forward.)
Currently women as entrepreneurs are increasingly accepted from almost zero in 2010 to a rather sizable number of recognized and admired entrepreneurs today at 40-45% with government support of “Women SMEs” helping grow this. Thailand beats the world average in female researchers and grant awardees at about 45-50%. And while it is by no means a feminist paradise, it is reductive and grossly insulting to characterize all of Thailand from the performance of that one person.
In many ways (though not all) Thailand has advanced past North America in the status of women.