Gendered News Coverage and Women as Heads of Government

Thomas, Melanee; Harell, Allison; Rijkhoff, Sanne A. M.; Gosselin, Tania

doi:10.1080/10584609.2020.1784326

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“…In particular, they assumed that she would represent the interests of lesbians and gay men better than her competitors 4 . With that said, both Wynne and the news media “may have been particularly careful in how they discussed her uniqueness” (Thomas et al 2021, 398). Neither Wynne nor the news media portrayed her as “the LGBT” leader (Thomas et al 2021).…”

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“…With that said, both Wynne and the news media “may have been particularly careful in how they discussed her uniqueness” (Thomas et al 2021, 398). Neither Wynne nor the news media portrayed her as “the LGBT” leader (Thomas et al 2021). Wynne downplayed her own past LGBT activism (Everitt and Raney 2019), but her government approved pro-LGBT reforms to the sex education curriculum and voted to ban conversion therapy for minors.…”

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Gender and LGBT Affinity: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne

Albaugh

Baisley

2023

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When a party selects an out lesbian as its leader, do women and LGBT people evaluate that leader more positively? And do they become more likely to vote for that party? We answer these questions using the case of Kathleen Wynne, premier of Ontario, Canada, from 2013 to 2018. We draw on four large-sample surveys conducted by Ipsos before and after the 2011 and 2014 Ontario elections. We compare shifts in best premier choice and vote choice among non-LGBT men, non-LGBT women, LGBT men, and LGBT women from 2011 to 2014. We find gender and LGBT affinity effects in leader evaluations. However, we find that only non-LGBT women and LGBT men were more likely to vote Liberal after Wynne became leader. This article contributes to research on affinity effects by examining LGBT affinity in a real-world election and the intersection of gender and LGBT affinity.

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Section: The Ontario Casementioning

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Gender and LGBT Affinity: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne

Albaugh

Baisley

2023

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“…Similarly, media coverage about women in politics is also highly gendered, as women politicians receive less coverage, even as provincial premiers. That coverage is still more likely to focus on women's appearance and typically uses more gendered language than does coverage of politicians who are men (Thomas et al, 2020;Trimble, 2017). At its worst, these gendered expectations about women's appropriate place in politics inform worrying patterns of sexual harassment (Collier and Raney, 2018) and gendered violence (Krook, 2020) in Canadian politics.…”

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“…Yet women remain dramatically underrepresented in electoral politics, both as legislative representatives and as democratically selected heads of government. Furthermore, when women lead parties that can form government, they are often forced to resign after a short period of time (O'Neill et al, 2019), even though they may sometimes receive more positive news media coverage than their male peers (Thomas et al, 2020).…”

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Explicit Gender Stereotyping in Canadian Politics

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In this research note, we document the extent to which negative beliefs about women's capacity to hold public office are widespread in Canada. Using a list experiment, our results demonstrate that many Canadians believe that men are “naturally better” leaders than are women and that women are “too emotional” and “too nice” for politics. While some groups are willing to explicitly own these views when asked directly about them (for example, older people, men, those who are more conservative and religious), others are unwilling to do so unless social desirability is mitigated (for example, younger people, left-leaning). By overcoming concerns with social desirability, we show that women still face explicit, often sexist, barriers in political work.

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“…The underrepresentation of women in certain areas of the news such as politics, business, or sports is well documented ( Power et al, 2019 ; Kemble, 2020 ; Thomas et al, 2020 ; Van der Pas and Aaldering, 2020 ). There is little large-scale data, however, about representation across entire news organizations, and even less so over a period of time.…”

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Gender Bias in the News: A Scalable Topic Modelling and Visualization Framework

Rao

Taboada

2021

Front. Artif. Intell.

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We present a topic modelling and data visualization methodology to examine gender-based disparities in news articles by topic. Existing research in topic modelling is largely focused on the text mining of closed corpora, i.e., those that include a fixed collection of composite texts. We showcase a methodology to discover topics via Latent Dirichlet Allocation, which can reliably produce human-interpretable topics over an open news corpus that continually grows with time. Our system generates topics, or distributions of keywords, for news articles on a monthly basis, to consistently detect key events and trends aligned with events in the real world. Findings from 2 years worth of news articles in mainstream English-language Canadian media indicate that certain topics feature either women or men more prominently and exhibit different types of language. Perhaps unsurprisingly, topics such as lifestyle, entertainment, and healthcare tend to be prominent in articles that quote more women than men. Topics such as sports, politics, and business are characteristic of articles that quote more men than women. The data shows a self-reinforcing gendered division of duties and representation in society. Quoting female sources more frequently in a caregiving role and quoting male sources more frequently in political and business roles enshrines women’s status as caregivers and men’s status as leaders and breadwinners. Our results can help journalists and policy makers better understand the unequal gender representation of those quoted in the news and facilitate news organizations’ efforts to achieve gender parity in their sources. The proposed methodology is robust, reproducible, and scalable to very large corpora, and can be used for similar studies involving unsupervised topic modelling and language analyses.

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Gendered News Coverage and Women as Heads of Government

Cited by 11 publications

References 46 publications

Gender and LGBT Affinity: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne

Gender and LGBT Affinity: The Case of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne

Explicit Gender Stereotyping in Canadian Politics

Gender Bias in the News: A Scalable Topic Modelling and Visualization Framework

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