Gender Checks

Gender check: 12/20/11 – West

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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: Seattle Times

On the Seattle Times, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 9 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Dec. 20, was titled “Seattle, feds to open talks on police use of force.” Its subject was the city’s aim to begin talks with the U.S. Department of Justice regarding findings that the police department has utilized an unconstitutional use of force.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Male

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, mayor
  2. Male, spokesman for female U.S. attorney
  3. Male, police chief
  4. Male, city council member

Notes/analysis: The article includes one photo and one mugshot. All feature male subjects (No. 1 and No. 3). 


Website: Seattle P-I

On the Seattle P-I, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 9 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Dec. 20, was titled “Unimpressed skiers ask: Where’s the spectacular La Nina snow?” Its subject was a lack of fresh snow on local slopes.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Female

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, who regularly ‘hits the slopes”
  2. Female, of ski resort
  3. Male, skier
  4. Female, skier

Notes/analysis: The three images with the story contain no named or discernible human subjects.

Gender check: 12/15/11 – Midwest

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Website: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (stltoday.com)

On Stltoday.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Dec. 15, was titled “Lake Saint Louis man killed when logging equipment falls from truck.” Its subject was a man who was fatally injured when logging equipment fell from a truck directly into his path and his car hit it head on.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Female

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, police master sgt.
  2. Female, chief operating officer for the work place of the deceased

Notes/analysis:


Website: St. Louis Beacon

St. Louis Beacon, 12/15/2011

On the St. Louis Beacon, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Dec. 15, was titled “‘Farm dust’ debate highlights wider battle over regulations.” Its subject was a Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Male

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (R)
  2. Male, U.S. representative (D)
  3. Unknown, another Democrat
  4. Male, U.S. senator (R)
  5. Male, U.S. representative (R)
  6. Male, U.S. House Democratic Whip
  7. Male, law professor and vp of network of law professors working on regulatory policy
  8. Male, head of regulatory research at nonprofit think tank
  9. Male, professor of economics
  10. Male, U.S. representative (R)
  11. Male, regulations czar to president
  12. Female, EPA administrator
  13. Male, U.S. representative
  14. Male, farmers union president
  15. Female, U.S. senator

Notes/analysis: The article also cites a number of studies and group statements. It included four mugshots, one of which was of a female source. The main photo, which was taken by a female photographer, featured a male farmer and his crew.

Gender check: 12/13/11 – West

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Website: Seattle Times

"Vancouver pain clinic leaves behind doubts, chaos and deaths" -Seattle Times, 12/13/2011

On the Seattle Times, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Dec. 13, was titled “Vancouver pain clinic leaves behind doubts, chaos and deaths.” Its subject was clinic that was associated with painkillers in six overdose deaths and for which the state had received more than 100 complaints.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Male (2)

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, whose mom died after a fatal overdose of methadone
  2. Female, nurse practitioner at the clinic (founder, key figure)
  3. Unknown, pharmacy manager
  4. Male, medical doctor
  5. Male (quote), medical doctor
  6. Male (quote), medical doctor
  7. Female, lawyer
  8. Female, nurse practitioner at the clinic
  9. Male, lawyer
  10. Male, lawyer

Notes/analysis: The article includes four photos. One photo featured a single female subject. Another was a mugshot of the main female subject. One photo features two male subjects. The other is of a prescription. Photos were by a male photographer.


Website: Seattle P-I

On the Seattle P-I, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Dec. 13, was titled “Occupy Seattle protests at port lead to skirmishes, arrests.” Its subject was protesters aimed to shutdown the Port of Seattle.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Staff

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, port spokeswoman
  2. Male, trucker
  3. Male, witness, legal adviser to the movement
  4. Female, union spokeswoman
  5. Female, port spokeswoman
  6. Male, union president

Notes/analysis: The article includes 28 photos, all by a male photographer.

Gender check: 12/8/11 – Midwest

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Website: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (stltoday.com)

Stltoday.com, 12/8/2011

On Stltoday.com, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Dec. 8, was titled “Pujols to sign with Angels.” Its subject was the Cardinals lose their offensive centerpiece to the Los Angeles Angels.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Male

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Unknown, “familiar with the bid”
  2. Male, chief executive, and male, general manager

Notes/analysis: Re: #2: Both men are cited as having “alternated describing their posture as ‘hopeful’ of retaining Pujols.”

 

Website: St. Louis Beacon

On the St. Louis Beacon, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PST) Thursday, Dec. 8, was titled “Health system reform moves forward despite controversy and legal challenge.” Its subject was health care reform.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Male

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, acting administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  2. Female, nurse practitioner and professor of nursing
  3. Female, senior vice president at SSM Health Care
  4. Male, regional vice president at SSM Health Care-St. Louis
  5. Female, executive director of area business health coalition
  6. Male, spokesperson for the state hospital association
  7. Female, spokesperson for Missouri Health Connection
  8. Female, project director of the center for health policy at university

Notes/analysis: The article contains three mugshots – two of female sources and one of a male source.

Gender check: 12/6/11 – West

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Website: Seattle Times

On the Seattle Times, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Dec. 6, was titled “GOP sees expanded gambling as state budget solution.” Its subject was a proposal by Republicans to let nontribal casinos have the same slot machines as tribal casinos in an effort to raise the money to solve the budget shortfall.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author:  Shared (Male and female)

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Male, state representative (R)
  2. Female, governor
  3. Male, chairman of the Swinomish Tribe
  4. Male, state senator (R)
  5. Male, chairman of gaming association
  6. Male, casino owner

Notes/analysis: The article includes an image, that names a female visible, and two mugshots, one of a female source and one of a male source.


Website: Seattle P-I

'Man held after fatal North Seattle stabbing" - Seattle P-I 12/6/2011

On the Seattle P-I, one of the lead articles featured on the home page as of 8:25 a.m. (PST) Tuesday, Dec. 6, was titled “Man held after fatal North Seattle stabbing.” Its subject was the fatal stabbing of a woman by her fiance’s roommate after he was told he could no longer live there.

Here is its gender breakdown:

–Author: Male

–Human sources  (listed in order mentioned):

  1. Female, neighbor
  2. Male, detective