https://pudding.cool/2022/02/women-in-headlines/
"Today, research has suggested that women are significantly less likely to make
the news compared to men. In the most recent report published by the Global
Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest and longest running research on
gender in the world’s news media, women were found to make up just 24% of news
subjects and sources reported. According to this report, this number has not
changed since 2010.
In the context of news, headlines introduce, frame and contextualize a news
story. Furthermore, research within the fields of educational and experimental
psychology has demonstrated that news headlines can have a disproportionate
impact on the reader’s mind, and that misleading headlines can bias readers
toward a specific interpretation.
So, if women are underrepresented in the news to begin with, what does it look
like when women do make headlines? And how have headlines about women changed
over time?"
Via Esther Schindler, who wrote "Interesting in-depth visual analysis of more
than 382,000 news headlines, exploring how women are represented in written
media."
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
