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Cutting Women Out: The Media Bias Against Female Candidates

By Erika Falk, In These Times. Posted March 15, 2008.


The mainstream media treats female presidential candidates as novelties instead of serious contenders -- just like they did 100 years ago.
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Erica Falk is associate program chair for the Master's Degree in Communication at John Hopkins University. She is author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns.

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