Sexism in News: A Comparative Study on the Portray of Female and Male Politicians in The New York Times
Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52559#.VJtwCcCAM4 Author(s) Haoyun Dai , Xiaodong Xu * Affiliation(s) School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China . ABSTRACT Adopting a comparative and descriptive case study of The New York Times , this paper aims to probe into the gender discrimination against female politicians in the news media. The New York Times , one of the most authoritative newspapers in the world, can be a convincing representative to expose the universal ideologies like sexism in the news media. The authors attempt to analyze the sexism in news from two dimensions, namely, horizontal dimension (synchronic) and v...