Abstract
These days it is said that journalism has become ‘feminized’, that jobs in communication and related careers are filled by young women and that this trend is present in all countries around the world. But are there really as many women as they say? Where are they located in their companies? Has gender parity in Spanish newsrooms been reached? This chapter will analyze the true situation of editorial departments in different Spanish media organizations, including the achievements of women journalists in recent years and the setbacks that they have experienced, in particular since the start of the economic crisis at the end of 2008. The results for Spain that appeared in the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media (Global Report) (Byerly 2011), in which I took part as regional coordinator for Spain, provide the background to the text. This positive experience gave me the opportunity to get to know in more depth the situation that women journalists are facing in the Spanish press, radio and TV, as well as digital formats. The situation I am going to describe has as its backdrop the characteristics of the country as well as those of the profound crisis in which Spain is currently immersed, as are most of our European neighbors.
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Gallego, J. (2013). Spain: Many Women, Little Power. In: Byerly, C.M. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273246_13
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