We examine gender bias in media by tallying the number of men and women quoted in
news text, using the Gender Gap Tracker, a software system we developed specifically for …

How do different types of media coverage shape—and potentially bias—voter evaluations of
women and men politicians? Theoretically reviewing 50 experimental studies and …

We present a topic modelling and data visualization methodology to examine gender-based
disparities in news articles by topic. Existing research in topic modelling is largely focused …

This article compares how the print media portrayed Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May in
the first three weeks of their respective prime ministerial terms. Examining the similarities …

When Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand's third woman prime minister in October 2017,
this occurred in a most unusual way. Labour came second in vote share; however, Ardern …

While the persisting issue of women's underrepresentation in political news partly arises
from biases in the social reality, journalism plays a crucial role in mediating these biases …

Female politicians are assumed to suffer from gender bias in the political arena but existing
research finds little evidence of an electoral cost to being a female candidate. Existing …

Conventional wisdom holds that women politicians confront a parenting dilemma. Those
with children are questioned about their ability to balance parental roles with political …

In the century since women were first eligible to stand and vote in British general elections,
they have relied on news media to represent their political perspectives in the public realm …

We present the Radar de Parité, an automated Natural Language Processing (NLP) system
that measures the proportion of women and men quoted daily in six Canadian French …