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Article: Looking Through a Gendered Lens: Local U.S. Television News Anchors' Perceived Career Barriers.(Abstract)
- Article from:
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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In the U.S., half of all TV news reporters and anchors are women (Stone, 1997). Twenty-five years ago, women made up only 13% of the television news workforce (Stone, 1997). This dramatic increase in the number of women in a once male-dominated profession serves as one result of what Pamela Creedon calls the "gender switch," which occurred during the mid-1970s when more women than men enrolled in college journalism and mass communication courses (1989). While the "gender switch" has resulted in increased numbers of women in the media workforce, here we pose the question:
Has equality in the challenges both men and women in the TV news profession face on the job ...