Contradictions in the (still) gendered structure of Portuguese newspapers' production and discourse

This article discusses the access of women to Portuguese newspapers against the background of a more general debate over the role of the media in the (re)production of gender inequalities in western societies. On one hand, we stress the qualitative and quantitative developments of women's participation as journalists in newspapers, by comparing the results of previous investigation in the Portuguese context with the statistics of our own research and with the statistics provided by the last Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and by The International Federation of Journalists. In addition, we show how gender inequalities are manifested and (re)produced in and by newspaper texts and images, by combining Critical Discourse Analysis and visual social semiotics and by comparing our results with the ones provided by the GMMP. We analyse relevant structural written and visual categories and their implications in terms of gender ideologies and inequalities in one daily edition of Portuguese quality newspapers

Context (archaeology · Geography · Ideology · Inequality · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Semiotics · Social inequality · Social science · Sociology · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Gender Studies · Law

• Challenging it softly”

  Anabela Cruz-Santos, Anabela Santos et al.•Feminist Media Studies•2018

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