Abstract
This chapter will analyze women’s access to and participation in Mexico’s news media. At the intersections of feminism and the political economy of communication, we will put into context the findings for Mexico in the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media (Global Report) (Byerly 2011). Our purpose is to establish that the access and participation of women in Mexico’s news media are (a) identified by gender inequality, (b) subject to a structural problem and not just an accident or a circumstance exclusive of one industry, (c) marked by structural inequality, i.e., the higher the position, the wider the gap of gender inequality, and (d) defined by a gender division of labor that is a feature of the incorporation of women to these industries.
The data presented in this article (complementing those of the Global Report) are part of the ongoing study, ‘For the human right of women to communicate: Their access and participation in the communication industries’, financed by the PAPIIT-UNAM Program and directed by Aimée Vega Montiel. This article was made possible thanks to the contribution of Amelia Arreguín, Raquel Ramírez and Enrique Alcaraz, grant holders of the project.
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Montiel, A.V., Ramírez, P.O. (2013). Mexico: Structural Challenges for Women in News Media. In: Byerly, C.M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273246_21
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