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The Washington Post published an article this week that cited researching accusing The Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week of 'overwhelmingly' featuring white men as shark experts compared to other demographics.
The article claimed that the fan-favorite predator-centric week lacks diversity and over-represents guys named Mike. The study on which the article is based claimed that there have been more shark experts named Mike featured on all Shark Weeks combined than women.
The study was led by Lisa Whitenack, a biology professor, who grew up loving sharks but seeing very few people who looked like her talking about them on TV.
Male researchers inspect a shark during Discovery Channel's beloved annual Shark Week
Mostly male experts inspect a 12-foot Great White shark that washed up on a South African shore in 2019. It had had its liver ripped out by a Killer Whale
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Biology professor Lisa Whitenack led a research team that concluded that men and specifically men named Mike are over represented as experts during Shark Week
She said that because women were underrepresented in shark documentaries,
