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Women in journalism: Reading list 1/27/2013

Catch up on news related to women and journalism with this week’s recommended reading list. Continue reading »

Moving forward: Plans for Year 2 of The Gender Report

After marking our first year in a series of posts, it’s now time to think about the future and what is to come for year two at The Gender Report. Here’s a look at what we have in store. Continue reading »

COMMENTARY: A year’s lessons

When we started this project, we had a fairly simple question to ask: To what extent are women both represented and participating in print and online media? Here are our thoughts after the first year. Continue reading »

12th month shows dip in female sources and authors

The articles from month 12 of our Gender Check monitoring project contained 23 female sources and 71 male sources, making women as 24.4 percent of human sources whose gender could be identified. Continue reading »

Lowest showing of female bylines yet found in ninth month of Gender Check project

Women comprised 27 percent of sources and 25 percent of bylines in the ninth month of our Gender Check monitoring project. This marked the lowest percentage of female bylines to date in this study. Continue reading »

Women see increase in bylines in eighth month of Gender Checks

Women made up nearly 25 percent of sources and 44.8 percent of authors in our eighth month of our Gender Check monitoring project. That reflected a rise in women authors over last month, when women had 35 percent of bylines. Continue reading »

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