Gender during the presidential honeymoon: An analysis of news coverage and its effects

Women are not only running for president in many countries -they are winning. Yet, little is know about how the news media portray the first months in office when the president is a woman. That is the focus of this study, a content analysis of newspaper coverage of the honeymoon period of the new female president of Chile. The results suggest gender-biased news coverage of the president and her suitability to do the job.

Publisher: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, The Renaissance, Washington, DC, Aug 08, 2007
Year of Publication: 2007