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"The Women’s Leadership Institute Australia (WLIA) recently released its 2021
Women for Media Report, which I co-authored with academic and journalist Jenna
Price.
We analysed just over 60,000 print and online news articles published in May
2021. We also interviewed leading figures in news organisations. We found that,
despite the presence of more women in journalism, men’s voices continue to
dominate the media landscape.
This is visible, for example, in the much greater frequency with which men’s
words appear in print as quoted testimony. Of the quotes cited in the articles
we analysed, 69% were attributed to men compared to 31% from women.
Men also provided the bulk of the quotes within each category of coverage, from
54% in arts and entertainment to 84% in sports. In politics, women provided
only 30% of the quotes cited.
The story isn’t much better when it comes to the authorship of opinion pieces.
Of the 1,800 opinion pieces analysed, women penned only 35%. This ranged from a
low of 11% in the
NT Times to a high of 54% in
The Sydney Morning Herald.
Men once again dominated in every category, from 59% in law to 82% in
disasters. The only category in which women were the majority was arts and
entertainment, at 51%. Areas of national importance and influence, such as
politics, business, science and law, were largely framed by the opinions of
men.
The lack of women’s voices in these pages normalises a masculine perspective
and implies that what women have to say is less legitimate and important."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
