Contents
Foreword 7
Chapter 1: Introduction
Monika Djerf-Pierre & Maria Edström
Comparing gender and media equality across the globe:
Understanding the qualities, causes, and consequences 11
Appendix 1.1 Global commitments to gender equality and the media 44
Appendix 1.2 Gender equality in media access and use 54
QUALITIES
Chapter 2
Monika Djerf-Pierre & Maria Edström
The GEM-Index: Constructing a unitary measure of gender
equality in the news 59
Appendix 2.1 Constructing the GEM-I 81
Appendix 2.2 A practical guide to measuring the GEM-I 92
Appendix 2.3 Additional table 97 Chapter 3
Claudia Padovani & Rossella Bozzon
Media gender-equality regimes: Exploring media organisations’
policy adoption across nations 99
Appendix 3.1 List of 59 countries included in the analysis 140
Appendix 3.2 Variables and data sources 141
CAUSES
Chapter 4 Monika Djerf-Pierre
Explaining gender equality in news content:
Modernisation and a gendered media field 147
Appendix 4.1 Variables and data sources 180
Chapter 5
Carolyn M. Byerly & Katherine A. McGraw
Axes of power: Examining women’s access to leadership
positions in the news media 191
Appendix 5.1 Variables and data sources 225
Appendix 5.2 Additional tables 229
Appendix 5.3 Piece–wise regressions 230 Chapter 6
Karen Ross, Marloes Jansen, & Tobias Bürger
The media world versus the real world of women and political
representation: Questioning differences and struggling for answers 233
CONSEQUENCES
Chapter 7 Mathias A. Färdigh
Fairer sex or fairer system? Exploring the relationship
between gender equality in the media and media corruption 261
Appendix 7.1 Variables and data sources 286
Appendix 7.2 Additional figures 290 Chapter 8
Sarah Macharia
Gender in economic journalism:
Impeccably accurate or smoke and mirrors? 293
Appendix 8.1 Variables and data sources 317
Appendix 8.2 Predicting gender inequality in business and economic news content 321
Appendix 8.3 Additional tables 325
