Article 58H7S Female voices 'drowned out' in reporting on Covid-19, report finds

Female voices 'drowned out' in reporting on Covid-19, report finds

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Karen McVeigh
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Analysis of stories across six countries including UK found fewer than a fifth of experts quoted on the pandemic were women

Women's voices have been worryingly marginalised" in reporting of the coronavirus, partly due to the war-like framing of the pandemic, according to a report analysing stories across six countries.

Each woman's voice in news coverage of the crisis is drowned out" by at least three men, it said.

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