Media coverage of general election campaign is disproportionately favouring men
Jeremy Corbyn, Nigel Farage, and Boris Johnson. Photograph: PA/TNE. - Credit: Archant
Men are dominating four-fifths of national press coverage according to a new study looking at the first few days of the general election campaign.
Academics at Loughborough University have noted "gender inequality across all coverage" with men dominating 67.1% of the television coverage, and 81.9% of the national press coverage.
The research - carried out between November 7th and November 13th - looked at citizens, business people, experts and public professionals.
Overall, women featured in 21.4% of the coverage, while men were much more prominent on 78.6%, according to Loughborough University's Centre for Research in Communication & Culture.
The researchers said: "The data show that female actors are marginalised in cumulative terms in comparison with their male counterparts during the election campaign so far."
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This gap is despite women leading a number of political parties
Jo Swinson leads the Liberal Democrats and Nicola Sturgeon leads the SNP.
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In Northern Ireland, the DUP is led by Arlene Foster, and Naomi Long is the leader of the Alliance Party.
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The data comes from the first in a series of weekly reports from the university on UK wide television and print media reporting of the 2019 UK general election.
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