Margaret E Ward: Irish media has a problem with women
Women make up fewer than one-third of Irish media professionals, even less at top level. How can the industry report on society if it doesn’t reflect it, asks Margaret E Ward
Margaret E Ward
Margaret E. Ward
But if any of us analysed Irish media today what might we find?
Whose opinions, experiences, and interests are reflected in the pages of national newspapers, during the radio segments that shape public opinion and on influential TV programmes?
Does this snapshot truly represent Irish society? Whose voices are missing or underrepresented? Why?
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In March 2020, as COVID-19 spread around the world and political leaders began to realise that an immediate response to the pandemic would involve personal sacrifices and public action, politicians and their directors of public health policies took to stadiums, lecterns, and cameras to speak about the need to stay home, shut schools and nurseries, ration access to grocery stores and health services.
The men, and they were usually men, spoke of social cohesion and a need to act selflessly and responsibly. The women, and they were usually women, who took on the greatest burden on housework, childcare and responsibility for ageing parents, sighed, took a deep breath and got to work.