BBC has come under fire for its “Faces of the year 2011 – the women list” after it included the Chinese panda Tian Tian, also known as Sweetie, as one of the 12 women who made headlines this year. Continue reading
Catching up from October and November, our monitoring saw slight gains in the percentage of female sources and bylines in the News Media Index after all-time lows in September and August. Continue reading
This week’s Gender Check from the Midwest looks at an article on a deal to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia and an article on a voluntary school desegregation program. Continue reading
The 11th month of our Gender Check monitoring project brought our highest percentage of female sources in a given month to date, with women as 34.7 percent of sources. Only one month to go until we hit the year mark in this study. Continue reading
This week’s Gender Check from the West looked at an article on new electronic tollling and another on the arrest of a man who may be responsible for part of a string of robberies. Continue reading
This week’s Gender Check from the Midwest looks at an article on an investigation into formula powder and an article on term limits in the Missouri legislature. Continue reading
