Keywords: International, English, gender, ethics, report study, guide, media diversity
Only the United States uses a single, never-changing male anchor, writes Anne Cooper Chen. A longstanding argument holds that women’s voices are not authoritative on-air personalities. Following this tradition, U.S. network anchors have almost always been male.
As the research coordinator for a late 1980’s study of women’s participation in five countries’ newscasts, Cooper Chen had the opportunity to observe that barriers against women are falling in many countries.
Can a Woman Deliver the News [EN].doc