Woman for President on CSPAN2 now

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showing the media bias against women candidates

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1. 59 to 36 I think she said, in Dec 06 when Obama and Clinton announced.

59 newspaper headlines mentioning Obama, 36 headlines mentioning Clinton, despite her being the 'frontrunner'.

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2. the average is 2 to 1

2 for the men for every 1 for the women, in spite of Clinton leading in the polls by a large margin

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3. One was a shock - one was expected.

What is your point? There was more Story in Obama announcing.

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4. substansive issues reporting

also quite divergent. articles on women mention the issues 10% less than the articles on men and women are described physically 4 times the amount of men

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5. Erika Falk's presentation

strikes me as over-dramitized and is driving me nuts...

Does this make me sexist?

Just askin'...

:hi:

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6. LOL! I think she's just trying REAL hard to be an 'interesting speaker'

not so much dramatizing the info

:hi:

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7. Still a long way to go, baby.

April: What does power look like?

10 Questions with Erika Falk

Covering Appearance, Ignoring Substance

Each month, the Museum will feature "10 Questions" with an expert on women and politics from a different corner of the world. This month we're talking to United States native Erika Falk, author of the Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns.

Few Americans are aware that more than thirty women have run for the presidency of the United States. Victoria Woodull, a spiritualist turned successful Wall Street broker, was the first, in 1872. Her name did not even make it on the ballot, and it would take another half-century before women won the right to cast their vote in elections.

In Women for President, Falk studied the presidential campaign of Victoria Woodhull and seven other prominent female presidential candidates-Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole and Carol Moseley Braun. In particular, she looked at the way the U.S. media treated these women in comparison to their male counterparts. To her shock and dismay, her research showed that not much has changed since 1872.

http://www.imow.org/wpp/stories/viewStory?storyId=935

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9. thanks for the link for those who missed the lecture n/t

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8. If there is such media bias against women candidates how did

Hillary Clinton ever become the front runner and the odds on candidate to win the whole thing?

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10. the author's book didn't include Ms. Clinton but she said things hadn't

really changed much.

BHO got twice the coverage HRC did, her emotions were mentioned 4x what his were, her physical appearance was mentioned in 40% of the articles, his 16%

read the link in the post above yours