La presencia y representación de la mujer científica en la prensa española
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2014
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Universidad de La Laguna
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Introducción: Este proyecto de investigación y desarrollo parte de la hipótesis de que las mujeres científicas son invisibles en los medios españoles. Objetivos y metodología: Para comprobar si esto es así en la prensa y cuál es la imagen de la mujer que se ofrece, analizamos la información científica difundida por los cinco principales diarios generalistas de pago durante seis meses no consecutivos. Conclusiones: Los resultados revelan que estos diarios dedican únicamente el 2,6% de sus páginas a información sobre ciencia y que, dentro de éstas, la mujer protagoniza el 14,3% de los artículos frente al 70,6%, que se centra en los hombres, y el 15%, que atiende a ambos. La representación que se hace de la mujer en estas informaciones relata sus investigaciones sin darle protagonismo y de forma aséptica, con ausencia de adjetivos valorativos. Encontramos así una importante desigualdad en el tratamiento informativo de los científicos y las científicas en España.
Introduction: This R&D project is based on the hypothesis that female scientists are invisible in the Spanish media. Objectives and methods: To test this hypothesis and to examine the image of female scientists offered by the Spanish press, this study analyses the science news disseminated by the five major general-interest paid-for newspapers during six non-consecutive months. Conclusions: The results reveal that these newspapers only dedicate 2.6% of their pages to science news and that only 14.3% of these news stories focus on female scientists, while the great majority of news, 70.7%, focuses on male scientists and the rest, 15%, have both male and female scientists as protagonists. Science news stories that focus on female scientists describe the research studies of these women in a dispassionate manner, without giving them a protagonist role, and without using evaluative adjectives to describe them. Thus, there is a significant level of inequality in the informative treatment given to male and female scientists in the Spanish press.
Introduction: This R&D project is based on the hypothesis that female scientists are invisible in the Spanish media. Objectives and methods: To test this hypothesis and to examine the image of female scientists offered by the Spanish press, this study analyses the science news disseminated by the five major general-interest paid-for newspapers during six non-consecutive months. Conclusions: The results reveal that these newspapers only dedicate 2.6% of their pages to science news and that only 14.3% of these news stories focus on female scientists, while the great majority of news, 70.7%, focuses on male scientists and the rest, 15%, have both male and female scientists as protagonists. Science news stories that focus on female scientists describe the research studies of these women in a dispassionate manner, without giving them a protagonist role, and without using evaluative adjectives to describe them. Thus, there is a significant level of inequality in the informative treatment given to male and female scientists in the Spanish press.