Gender Bias in Media Coverage of Tunisian Politicians

• In Event: Gender and (Social) Media Discourse

Brief Overview

Using an original dataset of more than 150,000 articles and 3,500 TV broadcasts from Tunisian media outlets, we find evidence of gender bias in both the amount and type of news coverage afforded to Tunisian politicians.

Authors

• Monica Komer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Oliver Lang, University of Wisconsin-Madison