News media takes female candidate less seriously than male candidates

USA Today argues that "news coverage decisions are overwhelmingly made by men, who lead the vast majority of newsrooms."

According to Women's Media Center: 
- Women make up two-thirds of journalism and communications grads, yet men write or produce 63% of all news coverage
- On television, male journalists outnumber female journalists by almost 2 to 1
- On Twitter, male political reporters ignore female reporters altogether; they retweet fellow male journalists three times more often than they retweet female journalists

As a result, male voices are genuinely heard more than female voices in news media. During political campaigns, this has a huge influence on how women are perceived. In news media, women in politics are often ignored or ridiculed. During Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential race, she was attacked for being unlikable, aloof, shrill, etc. During the 2020 Democratic nomination, similar comments came up while discussing Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand. 

Women have to walk the line of being either aloof or emotional, passionate or angry, etc. while men rarely have to face this predicament.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/14/amy-klobuchars-surge-shows-gender-inequality-sexism-media-men-majority-column/4754230002/ 2/14/2020