Gender, Media and Power:Addressing the Issue of Systemic

Male (Pale) Fail

Lucinda Marshall, DirectorFeminist Peace Network

2010

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Please Note:

we have finallyproven that womencan anchor majornews shows andlife as we know itwill not come to anend, but genderdiscrimination isstill alive and well inthe media worldwhich is stilldominated by men.

Yes,

painstakingly documented inSilences, her landmark book on thesilencing of women in literature, sotoo in the media is the silencing ofwomen’s voices still systemic andpervasive.

Try this Pick up the first section of your localnewspaper. Count the number of bylinesby women and the number of storiesabout women. Chances are that they willonly make up a small percentage of whatyou see.

Here are some statistics...

As Tillie Olsen

Men appear more frequently than women by a ratioof 4-to-1 in news stories.

Print Media

Quick, Can you name 10 menin Congress, how about 10women--can you guess why

that is harder to do?

Women in the news are far more likely to becelebrities or victims than women in power.

Time Magazine’sweekly columnof importantquotes...

3 out of 10 arefrom women.

OpEd Columnists:Paul KrugmanDavid BrooksRoger Cohen

Charles M. BlowGail Collins

Ross DouthatMaureen Dowd

Thomas L. FriedmanBob Herbert

Nicholas D. KristofFrank Rich

What’s blackand whiteand red all

over...

Sunday morning talk shows...still very male, very pale

Despite major inroads on television...

Looking beyondnews to the

entertainment sideof television, the

number ofportrayals of

violence againstwomen and girls ontelevision has risen

dramatically.

Radio:90% of the programdirectors are men.

Talkers Magazine’s2007 list of 250 talkshow hosts: 86%men, 14% women.

Film:Women accounted for 10% ofHollywood writers in 2007.

Men wrote 70% of all film reviewspublished in the nation’s topnewspapers.

William K. BlackHerr Henkel's Hall of Shame

Andy BorowitzToyota Unveils New Slogan:"Drive a Toyota. You'll NeverStop."

Chris WeigantFriday Talking Points -- Left StillWaiting For Rahm Apology

Peter DaouMale Monsters -- Girl Buried Alivefor Being a Girl and the WorldShrugs

Dennis SantiagoLittle Bank Savvy on the OregonTrail

Jeffrey WasserstromU.S.-China Relations: A LongView, A New Book

And then there’s the so-called“alternative”,“liberal” media...

February 1, 2010

Michael HudsonObama's Junk Economics

Stan GoffThe Murderous Mystique ofJSOC: How Secret BecomesSpecial

Patrick CockburnThe Case Against Tony Blair

Saul LandauUniversal Disorientation: theModern Media and Haiti

Dr. Carol Paris, MDStaying When They Tell Youto Leave: What I've LearnedDoing Civil Disobedience forSingle Payer

Marshall AuerbackA Proposal for GenuineFinancial Reform

Harvey WassermanWill Obama Guarantee a NewNuclear Reactor War?

Johanna BerriganDestruction, Hope and Faithin Port au Prince

Further Reading:

(Not) in the News: Media Culpability in the Continuum of Violence Against Women

http://www.countercurrents.org/gender-marshall300904.htm

What She Wore: The Prevalence of Gender Bias in Reporting

http://www.alternet.org/story/45445/ Deep Sexing the News

http://www.counterpunch.org/marshall07082006.html

Silencing Women on the Internet

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51354/

Delusion and Exclusion: The Harm that Occurs When Women are Under- and Mis-Represented

http://dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Marshall28.htm

Media Exclusion of Women as Sources Impedes Meaningful Reform

http://dissidentvoice.org/June05/Marshall0607.htm

Advocate for change.

Call out sexism when you see it.

SUPPORT WOMEN-RUN MEDIA.

Lucinda Marshall, DirectorFeminist Peace Networkwww.feministpeacenetwork.orgwww.facebook.com/feministpeacenetworkwww.twitter.com/fempeaceLucindaMarshall@feministpeacenetwork.org