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Women Are Barely Seen or Heard in the News, Report Reveals
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Only a quarter of those who appear or are heard in the news are women, a statistic that has changed by barely 9% in the last 15 years, despite three decades since governments adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the plan to advance women's rights.
Women Are Barely Seen or Heard in the News, Report Reveals
A journalist interviewing Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s envoy to the UN at the time, 2023. A new report, supported by UN Women, shows that only about a quarter of the 30,000 news stories in 90 countries surveyed had a woman as a source or a subject. MARK GARTEN/UN PHOTO Women are underrepresented and misrepresented in the news globally, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project 2025 report. It revealed that only 1.8 percent of news coverage…
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