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Differences in the newspaper treatment of men and women were examined in two sets of news stories collected a year apart, in the fall of 1976 and 1977. In both samples, coverage of women was more likely to include mention of personal appearance, marital status, and spouse than was coverage of men. These differences could not be attributed to the greater number of men in the news, nor to differences in the sections of the newspaper where stories about men and stories about women were usually found. They were equally true of locally written and national wire-service stories.
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Foreit, K.G., Agor, T., Byers, J. et al. Sex bias in the newspaper treatment of male-centered and female-centered news stories. Sex Roles 6, 475–480 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287367
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00287367