Gender Stereotypes Make Women Invisible: The Presence of Female Scientists in the Media

Interest in the situation of women scientists has increased in recent years. Scientific institutions and governmental authorities have launched initiatives to promote science as a vocation among women. Within this context, the effort made by the media in disseminating role models is of vital importa...

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Autores: Eizmendi Iraola, Maider, Peña Fernández, Simón Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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science
media
stereotypes
STEM
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spelling Gender Stereotypes Make Women Invisible: The Presence of Female Scientists in the MediaEizmendi Iraola, Maider Peña Fernández, Simón PablowomensciencemediastereotypesSTEMInterest in the situation of women scientists has increased in recent years. Scientific institutions and governmental authorities have launched initiatives to promote science as a vocation among women. Within this context, the effort made by the media in disseminating role models is of vital importance. The aim of this research is to analyse the presence of women scientists in the media, and to conduct an appraisal of the status granted to them and the image conveyed about them. To this end, we analysed the content published on the websites of the regional newspapers Berria, Gara, El Correo and Diario de Navarra between 2014 and 2019 citing women scientists and researchers (N = 2362). The results indicate that presence is greater in quantitative terms, as is the prominence given to them in headlines. However, the disciplines in which they practise and the stereotypes which are conveyed shape their image, which in the case of STEM areas emphasise their role as carers and their singularity in the scientific field.This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, grant number RTI2018-095775-B-C41 and Basque Government, grant number IT1496-22.MDPI2023202320222023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/59441reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoInglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICIU/RTI2018-095775-B-C41/https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/1/30info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/© 2022 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/594412026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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Eizmendi Iraola, Maider
women
science
media
stereotypes
STEM
title_short Gender Stereotypes Make Women Invisible: The Presence of Female Scientists in the Media
title_full Gender Stereotypes Make Women Invisible: The Presence of Female Scientists in the Media
title_fullStr Gender Stereotypes Make Women Invisible: The Presence of Female Scientists in the Media
title_full_unstemmed Gender Stereotypes Make Women Invisible: The Presence of Female Scientists in the Media
title_sort Gender Stereotypes Make Women Invisible: The Presence of Female Scientists in the Media
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Eizmendi Iraola, Maider
Peña Fernández, Simón Pablo
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Peña Fernández, Simón Pablo
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science
media
stereotypes
STEM
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science
media
stereotypes
STEM
description Interest in the situation of women scientists has increased in recent years. Scientific institutions and governmental authorities have launched initiatives to promote science as a vocation among women. Within this context, the effort made by the media in disseminating role models is of vital importance. The aim of this research is to analyse the presence of women scientists in the media, and to conduct an appraisal of the status granted to them and the image conveyed about them. To this end, we analysed the content published on the websites of the regional newspapers Berria, Gara, El Correo and Diario de Navarra between 2014 and 2019 citing women scientists and researchers (N = 2362). The results indicate that presence is greater in quantitative terms, as is the prominence given to them in headlines. However, the disciplines in which they practise and the stereotypes which are conveyed shape their image, which in the case of STEM areas emphasise their role as carers and their singularity in the scientific field.
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