its not directly an issue of itself, its an issue of consequence.
The majority of people with influence or power are men, people that are married to someone with influence or power are generally referenced as the spouse of the influential person. Youll still see this happening to men who are married to powerful women. This is also very common with other familial relations, siblings parents children etc. It's effective. People that know about the influential person but not the relation will be more likely to click it with that formatting but a person that knows the work of the person in question will still likely recognize them and click anyways. It's just a clickbait tactic.
True but there's also a tendency to refer even to quite famous women as "wife of", a common feminist example is that Simone de Beauvoir is often referred to as Sartre's lover. A more modern example I've heard was from a Swedish professor i met who had worked in the United States and was constantly annoyed that she was referred to as Mrs Sven Andersson.
Does anybody know who she is, or would the headline just have read as a random person saying something?
Ironically I don't know who Boniface Mwangi is, so it make no difference from my perspective.
I know a lot of married men who live through the power of their wives - I own a TV, but not the remote; we'll spend 3 hours trying to figure out supper - until she finally decides. I so love spending 4 hours in Macy's and Northstrum's garment sections as the bag servant - oh that's a nice dusty rose shaw hun... You aren't talking the common people there, ya know.
The majority of people with influence or power are men, people that are married to someone with influence or power are generally referenced as the spouse of the influential person. Youll still see this happening to men who are married to powerful women. This is also very common with other familial relations, siblings parents children etc. It's effective. People that know about the influential person but not the relation will be more likely to click it with that formatting but a person that knows the work of the person in question will still likely recognize them and click anyways. It's just a clickbait tactic.
Ironically I don't know who Boniface Mwangi is, so it make no difference from my perspective.