It's a shame that you're getting downvoted for this. You make an excellent point.

This is literally the only news article I have seen about The G7 Ministerial Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, and guess what? It's about a man being there. There's very little about what the meeting actually accomplished.

The optics are bad, for sure, but would Time have even written a piece about this meeting if the scandal of a man being involved wasn't there? Is this anything more than countries just making a token display by shunting some women off to Nikko for a photo op? Why is the name of the man involved mentioned in the article, but not one of the women's names is mentioned?

The entire piece seems set up like a fluff piece so that people can scoff at Japan for being such shit about gender equality, while feeling good about themselves, patting themselves on the back, and saying "Mission accomplished!" Even the media is playing along. Haha, Japan bad, other countries good, here's an article about a man!