Political battlefield: aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests

Gerrits, Bailey; Trimble, Linda; Wagner, Angelia; Raphael, Daisy; Sampert, Shannon

doi:10.1080/14680777.2017.1315734

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“…We found evidence of the latter when it came to competence. Journalists, politicians, and voters have identified the ability to work well with others as an important quality for political leaders, which is contrary to the traditional expectation that a leader exercise power over, rather than power with, others (Gerrits et al 2017). A qualitative analysis found that collaboration was read the same for both women and men, resulting in women being portrayed as having an important leadership skill.…”

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Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders

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How do the media depict the leadership abilities of government leaders, and in what ways are these depictions gendered? Does the focus of leadership evaluations change over time, reflecting the increased presence of women in top leadership roles? To answer these questions, we examined news coverage of 22 subnational government leaders in Australia and Canada, countries in which a significant number of women have achieved the premiership at the state or provincial level since 2007. Analysis demonstrates that newly elected women and men leaders receive approximately the same number of leadership evaluations. Women are assessed based on the same criteria as men. All subnational political leaders are expected to be competent, intelligent, and levelheaded. That journalists prioritize experience and strength while downplaying honesty and compassion indicates a continued emphasis on “masculine” leadership norms in politics. Yet evaluations of new premiers have emphasized the traditionally “feminine” trait of collaboration as key to effective leadership and, over time, have given more attention to likability and emotions when covering male premiers. As our analysis reveals, media conceptualizations of political leadership competencies are slowly expanding in ways that make it easier for women to be seen as effective political leaders.

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“…Hay una tendencia hacia la masculinización de los atributos de las candidatas, tanto en sus spots , como en la cobertura mediática (Álvarez-Monsiváis, 2020; Van der Pas y Aaldering, 2020). Para Gerrits et al (2017), la masculinización excluye a las mujeres y a la feminidad del ámbito político, y reafirma la hegemonía de los hombres y la masculinidad en dicho espacio.…”

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Interseccionalidad raza-género en las noticias digitales mexicanas sobre Kamala Harris

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El presente estudio tiene como objetivo analizar la información noticiosa que apareció en sitios web mexicanos sobre la campaña de Kamala Harris para obtener la vicepresidencia de Estados Unidos. Para ello, se realizó un análisis de contenido de a) actores que aparecieron en la información, b) temáticas cubiertas, c) identificación racial de la candidata y d) la presencia de encuadres políticos y personales. Se seleccionaron N=329 noticias provenientes de 10 sitios web de diarios tradicionales y 10 sitios web de medios nativos digitales. Se detectó que, en términos generales, las noticias se enfocaron en encuadres y temas políticos de la candidata, un comportamiento que resultó más contundente en las notas publicadas en medios nativos digitales que en las de los tradicionales. No obstante, el estudio concluye que la cobertura de Harris estuvo basada de manera importante en su interseccionalidad raza-género y en sus vínculos políticos con otros hombres.

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“…The game frame, also known as horse-race coverage, is common in election reporting and is replete with the language of the boxing match or battlefield (Gidengil and Everitt, 1999, 2000, 2003). The use of masculine language reinforces the cultural links between masculinity and political power (Gerrits et al, 2017). Furthermore, women politicians often face harsher evaluations of their electoral viability and leadership competency than their male counterparts, thereby undermining their political legitimacy (Falk, 2008; Gidgenil and Everitt, 1999, 2000, 2003).…”

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“…Our study fills an important gap in the gendered mediation and political leadership literatures by examining the role of the news media in the gendering of traits considered important for political leaders. Media texts are important to study because they are “powerful cultural forms” through which political events are interpreted and meanings are constructed (Gerrits et al, 2017: 2; Trimble, 2007).…”

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One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada

2018

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Which leadership qualities are most likely to be emphasized in news reports about leadership competitions, and are they attributed differently to women and men candidates? To answer this question, we conducted content and discourse analyses of 2,463 articles published by theGlobe and Mailnewspaper on 10 women and 17 men seeking the leadership of Canadian political parties since 1975. Our results show that women candidates were subjected to more negative and gendered assessments of their communication skills, intellectual substance and political experience than were men candidates. We also found little evidence that gendered media discourses about political leadership have changed over time, especially in the case of women in the strongest position to become the country's first national party leader or prime minister.

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Political battlefield: aggressive metaphors, gender, and power in news coverage of Canadian party leadership contests

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders

Representations of Political Leadership Qualities in News Coverage of Australian and Canadian Government Leaders

Interseccionalidad raza-género en las noticias digitales mexicanas sobre Kamala Harris

One Smart Politician: Gendered Media Discourses of Political Leadership in Canada

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