The Rooms Where It Happened

Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by poszlem on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:16PM (#28192117)

I understand why (historically), but it is still one of those things that cannot be unseen once you see them - there are no women in those paintings/photos. It really boggles the mind of a modern human.

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by jhgb on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:51PM (#28192424)

> It really boggles the mind of a modern human.

I'm not sure it would, since it would still be unlikely today for them to be there in these military positions.

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by scoopertrooper on Sunday August 15, 2021 @10:15PM (#28194341)

Yup, that's a bunch dudes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Chiefs_of_Staff#Current_...

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by sumedh on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:06AM (#28195100)

bunch of white dudes and token minority :)

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by sandworm101 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:27PM (#28192688)

>> there are no women in those paintings/photos.

Except the last one, the one from 1995. Progress happened. I"m glad to see that the first woman to be depicted is actually sitting at the table. I'd be unhappy if the one woman in the article was servant or mistress to one of the men. This woman is clearly a world leaders, although I cannot figure out who she is.

(Is the woman leaning over the table Hillary Clinton?)

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by gjm11 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:30PM (#28193535)

I think the seated woman is Pauline Neville-Jones, who was leading the UK's delegation. She was a senior civil servant (director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) rather than a world leader.

I think the woman in green leaning over the table is some sort of aide rather than a person of power in her own right. See e.g. the picture here https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/20/dayton-25-years where she's apparently sorting out a document for the president of Bosnia while others to her left and right are doing likewise for the presidents of Serbia and Croatia.

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by jhgb on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:44PM (#28193611)

> I think the seated woman is Pauline Neville-Jones, who was leading the UK's delegation.

It is her: https://www.c-span.org/video/?68521-1/bosnia-peace-agreement

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by blkhawk on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:27AM (#28195185)

There are woman in the 1975 one as well - its sorta hard to tell but one is right in the middle-left foreground.

The others in the distance are less clear - but there are clearly some in the press pool? on the middle balcony.

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by adventured on Sunday August 15, 2021 @05:55PM (#28192910)

Not sure who the woman is, however it's not Clinton.

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Re:The Rooms Where It Happened by gumby on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:22PM (#28194656)

Yes, until the Dayton accords, though likely at Helsinki too, though there’s no way to see.

I thought I saw a flash of white in the Versailles treaty photo but when I zoomed in it was just some man in a lightly colored suit.

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