New research from Simon Fraser University shows that women’s voices continue to be underrepresented in the media, despite having prominent female leaders across Canada and internationally.
Researchers in SFU’s Discourse Processing Lab found that men outnumber women quoted in Canadian news media about three to one. The findings from the team’s Gender Gap Tracker study were published this week in the journal PLOS ONE.
The research team collected data from seven major Canadian media outlets from October 2018 to September 2020. Over the two-year period, 29 per cent of people quoted in media stories were women versus 71 per cent men. [Read more…] about Women’s voices in the media still outnumbered by those of men – study