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Does gender determine journalists' professional views? A reassessment based on cross-national evidence
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Does gender determine journalists' professional views? A reassessment based on cross-national evidence

T Hanitzsch and Folker Hanusch
European Journal of Communication, Vol.27(3), pp.257-277
2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323112454804
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comparison gender journalists professional views survey
Research into journalism and gender to date has found somewhat contradictory evidence as to the ways in which women and men practice journalism. Some scholars claim that women have inherently different concepts and practices of journalism and that this has led to a feminization of journalism, others have found little evidence to suggest that men and women differ significantly in terms of their role conceptions. While numerous studies have been conducted into this issue around the world, few have taken a truly comparative approach. This article presents results from a large-scale comparative survey into gender differences in journalists' professional views in 18 countries around the world. Results suggest that women and men do not differ in any meaningful ways in their role conceptions on either the individual level or in newsrooms dominated by women, or in sociocultural contexts where women have achieved a certain level of empowerment.

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