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The Gender of News and News of Gender: A Study of Sex, Politics, and Press Coverage of the 2010 British General Election
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In the months leading up to the 2010 British General Election, pundits were claiming that women would be specifically targeted by all political parties. However, this focus never materialized and it was just more business as usual but with the added novelty of televised leaders’ debates, which meant that coverage was more male ordered than ever. The study on which this article is based monitored articles published in the four weeks leading up to election day across twelve newspapers, comprising a mix of dailies and weekend editions, broadsheets and midmarket, and tabloid titles. The study concentrated on articles that had the election as the main story and which mentioned or sourced one or more candidates, both MPs seeking reelection, and Parliamentary Candidates. We were interested in exploring (any) differences in the news coverage of women and men candidates, looking at both frequency and content. Our findings suggest that women were much less likely to feature in news stories than men, even when controlling for Party Leader coverage. Women were much more likely to be mentioned or quoted in feature articles focused explicitly on gender issues, made interesting because of their sex and couture rather than their political abilities and experience.
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The presence of news frames that highlight female politicians' gender has been well documented internationally.
“The presence of news frames that highlight female politicians’ gender has been well documented internationally (inter alia, Campbell and Childs 2010;Campus 2013;Falk 2013;Garcia-Blanco and Wahl-Jorgensen 2012;Heldman et al. 2005;Ross et al. 2013;Sreberny-Mohammadi and Ross 1996).”
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At the 2010 general election, the explicit gender frame continued to highlight women's difference, ensuring that the role of politician continues to be codified as male.
“At the 2010 general election, the explicit gender frame continued to highlight women’s difference, ensuring “that the role of politician continues to be codified as male” (Ross et al. 2013: 7).”
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Ross et al. (2013) found that only 29 percent of national newspaper articles covering the British 2010 general election mentioned one or more females.
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- Authors
- Ross, K., Evans, E., Harrison, L., Shears, M., & Wadia, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- Kingston University London (GB)
- University of the West of England (GB)
- University of Plymouth (GB)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- Venue
- The International Journal of Press/Politics
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-11-26
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-20
- ISSN
- 1040-1620 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-1612
- 1940-1620
- OpenAlex
- W2015317231
- Cited by
- 91
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 10.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- eprints.uwe.ac.uk
- Locations
- The International Journal of Press/Politics (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (acceptedVersion)
- UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol) (submittedVersion)
- UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University) (submittedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Politics and Representation
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Communication › News Media Framing and Political Communication
- Keywords
- women politicians, 2010 British general election, women in politics
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