TV gender gap

Click here for full article March 22, 2017

Females continue to report less news than males do. On major network channels, women are said to report 3 times less than their male counterparts. This gap remains the same throughout newspapers, online articles, and television. Men dominate media across all platforms. Male reporters do not find stories told by a female to creditable and their female partners are not "equal" in telling the story. Research presents that overall, men report 74.8% of news, leaving women with only 25.2%. Men are found to report more on sports, weather, and crime, where women are seen reporting education, lifestyle, and health related news.

The article, "Sex Segregation in the US Labor Force," (Bose, 2001) relates to this article because it talks about how a lot of common occupations are male dominated. Bose comments, 

"In white-collar, pink-collar, clerical, and blue-collar occupations, the jobs at the top of the hierarchy tend to be male dominated; when women are allowed into those specialties, it is usually because the jobs have changed in some way to be less attractive to men." 

Bose emphasizes the point that many of the occupations held by women are occupations that men have passed up because they have found better work. Women do not have the same opportunities than their male counterparts.