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The headlines of practically all news reports on the swearing in of Anandiben Patel as the new Chief Minister of Gujarat highlighted the fact that she is the state’s first woman chief minister. However, none of them reported on whether there were any women among the...
“61 women in this Lok Sabha, highest ever” – headline in The Times of India, 17 May 2014. “The 16th Lok Sabha will have the highest number of women members at 61. ‘This is the highest number of women members elected to the Lok Sabha in the history of the country,...
A headline in the Times of India of 17 May 2014, a day after the election results, said: 'Amma and Didi keep home fires burning'. But the papers didn’t say the same about Naveen Patnaik or YSR or Uddhav Thackeray. Implicit in the use of the term “home fires” is the...
Forget 33 percent, the women who were in the cabinet didn't get to hold weighty portfolios. "Except for a few politicians, most elected female representatives have a limited or marginal role in important discussions within their political party or within the national...
Switching on the television to follow election result coverage, I find myself searching for women panelists. Surfing channels at around 9 a.m., I saw: One on NDTV in a panel of about six people; One on CNN-IBN in a larger panel; Two out of eight on Headlines Today;...
The headline is intriguing: "No country for women: no matter who wins the election, India will still be ruled by wealthy men." The intro promises a fresh perspective on the mammoth, everlasting election that has, for the most part, been covered as if through a...
Priyanka Gandhi is canvassing for UPA's probable Prime Ministerial Candidate, Rahul Gandhi. Hema Malini, Smriti Irani and Nagma are candidates in the most watched election in Indian History. And yet when media discusses how they are doing what they are doing it is on...
The provenance of the graphic posted here is unknown at the moment (it was shared on Facebook and online searches haven't yet revealed where it originated). However, it obviously illustrates the latest findings of researchers at the CMS Media Lab who have been...