Are Women an Afterthought? Using Text as Data to Scrutinize Press Coverage of Ohio Gubernatorial Primaries

• In Event: Gender and Primaries

Brief Overview

Recent evidence of gender-based equanimity in press coverage is based on general election races. We scrutinize the primary stage, using text as data to show how the press impedes women’s candidacies at this important winnowing stage.

Authors

• Melissa K. K. Miller, Bowling Green State University-Main Campus

• Nathan Englehart, Independent Researcher

• Hannah Cubberley, Bowling Green State University

• Rachel Martin, Bowling Green State University

• Max Seeley, Illinois State University