Women for President
Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
(Sprache: Englisch)
When Hillary Clinton announced her 2008 bid for president she was the Democratic front-runner. Despite this, she received less coverage than Barack Obama, who trailed her in the polls. Such a disparity is indicative of the gender bias the media has...
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When Hillary Clinton announced her 2008 bid for president she was the Democratic front-runner. Despite this, she received less coverage than Barack Obama, who trailed her in the polls. Such a disparity is indicative of the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872. Tracing the campaigns of eight women who ran for president through 2004 - Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, and Carol Moseley Braun - Erika Falk finds little progress in the fair treatment of women candidates. A thorough comparison of the women's campaigns to those of their male opponents reveals a worrisome trend of sexism in press coverage--a trend that still persists today.
While women have been elected to the highest offices in countries such as the UK, Germany, and India, the idea that a woman could be president of the United States provokes scorn and ridicule. The press portrays female candidates as unviable, unnatural, and incompetent, and often ignores or belittles women instead of reporting their ideas and intent. Since voters learn most details about presidential candidates through media outlets, Falk asserts that this prevailing bias calls into question the modern democratic assumption that men and women have comparable access to positions of power.
While women have been elected to the highest offices in countries such as the UK, Germany, and India, the idea that a woman could be president of the United States provokes scorn and ridicule. The press portrays female candidates as unviable, unnatural, and incompetent, and often ignores or belittles women instead of reporting their ideas and intent. Since voters learn most details about presidential candidates through media outlets, Falk asserts that this prevailing bias calls into question the modern democratic assumption that men and women have comparable access to positions of power.
Autoren-Porträt von Erika Falk
Johns Hopkins University
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Erika Falk
- 2008, 184 Seiten, 8 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,4 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Combined Academic Publ.
- ISBN-10: 0252075110
- ISBN-13: 9780252075117
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Women for President “
"A powerful evidence-based look at how the media has overlooked andundervalued women presidential candidates since they first ran over
130 years ago. This is a must read for political operatives and voters
across America." Donna Brazile, chair of the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute and campaign manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000
"Erika Falk's thorough research into how women running for president
have been covered (on appearance) or ignored (on substance) is a
provocative, cautionary tale for the political press." Adam Clymer, retired chief Washington correspondent for the
New York Times
"Well written and well argued, Women for President is a must read
for anyone trying to make sense of Hillary Clinton's bid to become the
Democratic Party nominee for president." Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of Packaging the Presidency: A History and Criticism of Presidential Advertising
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