This slide show is designed as a reference to accompany a presentation by Lucinda Marshall, Director of the Feminist Peace Network, http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org.

1. Gender, Media and Power:
Addressing the Issue of Systemic
Male (Pale) Fail
Lucinda Marshall, Director
Feminist Peace Network
2010

2. Please Note:
This slide show is designed as an online reference
to accompany a presentation by Lucinda Marshall,
Director of the Feminist Peace Network. To learn
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3. Yes,
we have finally
proven that women
can anchor major
news shows and
life as we know it
will not come to an
end, but gender
discrimination is
still alive and well in
the media world
which is still
dominated by men.

4. As Tillie Olsen
painstakingly documented in
Silences, her landmark book on the
silencing of women in literature, so
too in the media is the silencing of
women’s voices still systemic and
pervasive.
Pick up the first section of your local
Try this newspaper. Count the number of bylines
by women and the number of stories
about women. Chances are that they will
only make up a small percentage of what
you see.
Here are some statistics...

5. Print Media
Men appear more frequently than women by a ratio
of 4-to-1 in news stories.
Quick, Can you name 10 men
in Congress, how about 10
women--can you guess why
that is harder to do?
Women in the news are far more likely to be
celebrities or victims than women in power.

6. Time Magazine’s
weekly column
of important
quotes...
3 out of 10 are
from women.

7. What’s black
and white
and red all
over...
OpEd Columnists:
Paul Krugman
David Brooks
Roger Cohen
Charles M. Blow
Gail Collins
Ross Douthat
Maureen Dowd
Thomas L. Friedman
Bob Herbert
Nicholas D. Kristof
Frank Rich

8. Despite major inroads on television...
Sunday morning talk shows...
still very male, very pale

9. Looking beyond
news to the
entertainment side
of television, the
number of
portrayals of
violence against
women and girls on
television has risen
dramatically.

10. Radio:
90% of the program
directors are men.
Talkers Magazine’s
2007 list of 250 talk
show hosts: 86%
men, 14% women.

11. Film:
Women accounted for 10% of
Hollywood writers in 2007.
Men wrote 70% of all film reviews
published in the nation’s top
newspapers.

12. And then there’s the so-called February 1, 2010
“alternative”,“liberal” media... Michael Hudson
Obama's Junk Economics
Stan Goff
The Murderous Mystique of
JSOC: How Secret Becomes
William K. Black Special
Herr Henkel's Hall of Shame
Patrick Cockburn
Andy Borowitz The Case Against Tony Blair
Toyota Unveils New Slogan:
"Drive a Toyota. You'll Never Saul Landau
Stop." Universal Disorientation: the
Modern Media and Haiti
Chris Weigant
Friday Talking Points -- Left Still Dr. Carol Paris, MD
Waiting For Rahm Apology Staying When They Tell You
to Leave: What I've Learned
Peter Daou Doing Civil Disobedience for
Male Monsters -- Girl Buried Alive Single Payer
for Being a Girl and the World
Shrugs Marshall Auerback
A Proposal for Genuine
Dennis Santiago Financial Reform
Little Bank Savvy on the Oregon
Trail Harvey Wasserman
Will Obama Guarantee a New
Jeffrey Wasserstrom Nuclear Reactor War?
U.S.-China Relations: A Long
View, A New Book Johanna Berrigan
Destruction, Hope and Faith
in Port au Prince

14. Further Reading:
(Not) in the News: Media Culpability in the Continuum of Violence Against Women
http://www.countercurrents.org/gender-marshall300904.htm
What She Wore: The Prevalence of Gender Bias in Reporting
http://www.alternet.org/story/45445/
Deep Sexing the News
http://www.counterpunch.org/marshall07082006.html
Silencing Women on the Internet
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51354/
Delusion and Exclusion: The Harm that Occurs When Women are Under- and Mis-
Represented
http://dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Marshall28.htm
Media Exclusion of Women as Sources Impedes Meaningful Reform
http://dissidentvoice.org/June05/Marshall0607.htm

15. Advocate for change.
Call out sexism when you see it.
SUPPORT WOMEN-RUN MEDIA.
Lucinda Marshall, Director
Feminist Peace Network
www.feministpeacenetwork.org
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