Women Displayed Negatively In Media
Women in the press: BBC Article
Sex objects
A report by Object and three other women's campaign groups surveyed 11 British newspapers over a fortnight in September. It found "excessive objectification of women in some parts of the press, reducing them entirely to sexual commodities in a way that would not be broadcast on television, nor allowed in the workplace because of equality legislation".
Passive roles
Campaigners have long complained that there is a pronounced tendency across the whole of the media for women to disproportionately appear in passive roles - perhaps as victims of crime - instead of actually doing something.
Edwin Smith accepts there may be some truth in the argument that women are presented as victims, but that it reflects a wider culture.
"It's a symptom of how things have been. It is lazy but it has more widespread appeal to portray women as a victim. And the reader is more likely to sympathise with a woman victim."
Relative invisibility
Research by Women in Journalism this year, looking at a month of national newspaper newspapers, found that men wrote three quarters of all front-page articles and 84% of those mentioned or quoted in lead pieces were male.
Its a man's world
Its a man's world
And women were focus of 19% of news stories about politics and government in 2010
Women in Journalism study showed 78% of front-page articles in British national newspapers written by men, and 84% of those quoted or mentioned are male
23% of newsmakers were women in 2010
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