BuzzFeed News talked to Gloria Steinem about cyberbullying, the gendered language of “soft” and “hard” news, and when women couldn’t report the weather.
The report studies the representation of women and people of color in media across print, television, radio, digital, film, and now social media and video games.
Robin Morgan (far left), Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem and Christiane Amanpour.
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Julie Burton, president of the WMC, broke down their findings in the report's introduction:
Women, who are more than half the population, are assigned to report stories at a substantially lower rate than men. In evening broadcast news, women are on-camera 32 percent of the time; in print news, women report 37 percent of the stories; on the Internet, women write 42 percent of the news; and on the wires, women garner only 38 percent of the bylines.
Women's Media Center
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