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Gender Checks, Northeast

Gender Check 3/7/12 – Northeast

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Gender Checks are quick examinations of gender representation in individual news articles for the purpose of discovering trends over time. Click here to read more.

Website: Boston Globe (Boston.com)

On Boston.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 10:20 a.m. (EST) Wednesday, March 7, was titled “Romney Wins Big, But Rivals Hang In.”

Here is its breakdown:

Subject:  Politics and Government: other domestic politics (Global Media Monitoring Project No. 4)

Word count: 1,359

Authors: Male (3)

Human sources (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male – presidential candidate (from public comments)
  2. Male – presidential candidate (from public comments)
  3. Male – presidential candidate (from public comments)
  4. Male – political strategist
  5. Male – political science professor
  6. Female – voter at large
  7. Male – voter at large

Website: Open Media Boston

At the time of this post at 6 p.m. EST, the site had not posted new content since last week’s Gender Check.

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About Joy Bacon

currently lives in Baltimore, Md., and teaches at a low-income high school. She studied English and journalism at Whitworth University, where she served as editor-in-chief of The Whitworthian as well as a contributing editor for Script literary magazine. She has worked in several freelance capacities and is passionate about promoting gender equity both domestically and abroad.

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