I need to find some short examples of gender bias in media - preferably news articles, but I don't have a clue what to look for specifically.|||Take a look at stories about the Orthodox Jewish newspapers that took Hilary Clinton out of a White House picture because she was a woman. They also removed another woman who was in the picture.|||If you watch Joe in The Morning, with Joe Scarborough and his helpmate Mika Z. you'll see gender bias in action.
Mika, a woman, always plays second fiddle to the panel of mostly men sitting around the table. They don't allow her to express her opinions very often, Joe cuts her off, the other guys ignore her, and no upper management does anything to remedy this situation.
I suppose she plays the role of the token female, there for show, to smooth over hurt feelings, to act as a school marm, keeping the boys in line when their testosterone gets overwhelming.
She herself gave a small talk the other day (when Joe was on vacation of course) about how she almost left the station because of the glaring inequities in pay between her and her male cohorts. She never said whether they decided to compensate her the way they compensate men and I doubt that's what happened. Probably they patted her on the head and told her what a good job she is doing.
What's more, the problem is that females now will see her as some kind of role model who takes the weak way out.
That is just one small example of gender bias on TV. You think the hiring of Mika was an accident? They hired her because they knew they could control her, her image, her self-confidence and at the same time influence other women to believe that being a Mika is not such a bad thing.
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