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Date
2014-06-01
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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Empirical and anecdotal evidence shows that the news media are male-dominated. This study updates the extant literature on women’s representation in the op-ed pages of ten U.S. newspapers. A content analysis showed that female authors are moving beyond topics traditionally linked to females and are writing columns on topics such as politics and economy. However, they remain a minority, and, thus, women’s voices have yet to gain more visibility in the world of opinion writing in U.S. journalism.
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print media, content analysis, gender, professional issues
Citation
Harp, D., Bachmann, I., & Loke, J. (2014). Where Are the Women? The Presence of Female Columnists in U.S. Opinion Pages. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 91(2), 289-307. doi: 10.1177/1077699014527457