Women still vastly outnumbered by men on radio and TV news

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Gutenberg
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Women still vastly outnumbered by men on radio and TV news

Post by Gutenberg » Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:35 am

Women still vastly outnumbered by men on UK radio and TV news
"Two years after an industry campaign was launched to increase the number of women heard on television and radio, male experts still outnumber female experts on the main news programmes by a ratio of four to one."
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio ... o-research

Some things never change, and this is obviously just a part of a bigger trend. Here is an article about an older study:
The big gender gap on the small screen: men outnumber women on TV two-to-one
"Study finds that females who do appear on television are often in soaps or on news to discuss 'softer' topics"
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/m ... mber-women

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