{"id":47850,"date":"2012-06-14T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47850"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:15:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:15:58","slug":"news-media-make-men-the-experts-on-womens-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/14\/news-media-make-men-the-experts-on-womens-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"News Media Make Men the Experts on Women&#8217;s Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4thestate.net\/female-voices-in-media-infographic\/#.T9A_-rBfF3W\" target=\"_blank\">The Fourth Estate<\/a> has found that the vast majority of people quoted in news coverage of the 2012 election are men. \u00a0The\u00a0media research group collected\u00a0a sample of election-related news stories from print newspapers and TV broadcasts, finding that 13% of print sources were women (79% were men and 8% were organizations) and 16% of TV sources were women (81% were men and 3% were organizations).<\/p>\n<p>Male dominance was true in all outlets, though <em>Meet the Press<\/em>\u00a0and <em>Time Warner<\/em> stand out as the least disproportionate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/26.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-47852\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/26.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/26.jpg 815w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/26-500x195.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This might be old (though still frustrating) news, except for the fact that the pattern held for issues traditionally considered &#8220;women&#8217;s&#8221;: abortion, birth control, Planned Parenthood, and women&#8217;s rights (blue is men, pink is women, grey is organizations):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/112.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47851\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/112.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This asymmetry is found across media. \u00a0See also our posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/04\/the-gender-gap-in-book-reviewing\/\">gender and book reviewing<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/12\/gender-race-and-top-billing-at-paramount-pictures\/\">gender and top billing at Paramount pictures<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/15\/the-gender-imbalance-in-family-movies\/\">gender and top creatives for family movies<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/04\/women-and-the-news-an-international-comparison\/\">women as news subjects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fourth Estate has found that the vast majority of people quoted in news coverage of the 2012 election are men. \u00a0The\u00a0media research group collected\u00a0a sample of election-related news stories from print newspapers and TV broadcasts, finding that 13% of print sources were women (79% were men and 8% were organizations) and 16% of TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,12508,55,2095,2094,129,85,8121],"class_list":["post-47850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-politics","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-election-2012"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47850"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58336,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47850\/revisions\/58336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}