Women are severely underrepresented in editorial leadership and in news coverage. Stefan Heunis/Getty Images January 16, 2023 Women’s voices are missing in the media – including them could generate billions in income Ylva Rodny-Gumede, University of Johannesburg The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
www.shutterstock.com July 15, 2021 In NZ and around the world, women are still more likely to present and report the news than appear in it Susan Fountaine, Massey University It will take another 67 years to close the gender gap in news, according to the latest global survey of women in the media.
Positive sign: new Guardian editor in chief Katharine Viner. Katharine Viner March 26, 2015 Sexism is still rife in the news, but we may be about to see some improvement Karen Boyle, University of Stirling From the five-yearly Global Media Monitoring Project, we know that women are not portrayed quite as badly in the media as they used to be. But will the 2015 project show that trend continuing?