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Nadia Bokody: The type of guy women shouldn t trust
14 Mar, 2021 12:45 AM
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It s the men that claim to be one of the good guys that you need to avoid. Photo / Nadia Bokody
It s the men that claim to be one of the good guys that you need to avoid. Photo / Nadia Bokody
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I m going to confess something.
When I began my career as a writer just over a decade ago, I wasn t prepared for how much unsolicited feedback I d receive from men.
Mainly because, I ve never actually written about men.
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I make a point not just because the internet is already saturated with male-centric content (women make up just 24 per cent of the voices seen and heard in popular news media, according to a Global Media Monitoring Project report), but because it always struck me as presumptuous to commentate on the lived experiences of men when I m not, you know … a man.
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In this Reuters Institute’s factsheet we analyse the gender breakdown of top editors in a strategic sample of 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets across four continents.
Looking at a sample of 10 top online news outlets and 10 top offline news outlets in each of these 12 markets, we find:
Only 22% of the 180 top editors across the 240 brands covered are women, despite the fact that, on average, 40% of journalists in the 12 markets are women. Looking only at the 10 markets we covered in 2020 and again in 2021, 23% of top editors are women, the same percentage as last year.
Looking exclusively at the 178 brands included both this year and last year, the percentage of women among the top editors has changed from 22% in 2020 to 24% in 2021. Among 37 new top editors across these brands, 16% of these are women. (There were 14% women among the outgoing top editors.)
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