A Persistent Gender Bias in Chilean Press: The Influence of Journalist’s Gender and Editor’s Gender

Abstract

There is a lot of evidence about gender bias in the media, but not clear evidence about its causes. In this article, we study the influence of journalist’s gender and editor’s gender on gender bias in Chilean press through time. Based on content analysis of 2,645 news articles from Chilean leading newspapers and logistics regression, results confirm the relevance of the gender of both, journalists and editors, on the presence of gender bias in Chilean press, being a permanent behavior through time. Our research supports that the more women in the newsrooms, the greater women’s representation by the news media.

Periodismo, fuentes políticas y género en Chile. Una relación desproporcionada

“…Las mujeres aparecen un 34,3%, si bien ocupan un 40% de los cargos de la gestión política nacional (Servel, 2018). Este estudio también identificó que la brecha aumenta cuando el análisis se centra en medios impresos (la presencia femenina baja al 27%) (Leiva & Kimber, 2020).…”