Gender, Politics, and the Albanian Media: A Women Parliamentarians' Account (original) (raw)

Abstract

Danaj and Godole examine the complex relationship between women parliamentarians and the media in post-communist Albania through qualitative interviews with eight female members of parliament in office for the period 2009-2013 and find support for all three determinants of parliamentarians’ presence in the media: elite status, active involvement, and media bias. In a mediated political environment, despite an increase in the number of women in parliament due to the new proportional electoral code with a gender quota, they continue to receive less media coverage than their male colleagues, unless they are high-ranking politicians or involved in high profile cases. Female politicians perceive gender bias not only in terms of omission, but also trivialization and condemnation. However, they do not passively accept gendered mediation as they resist trivialization and try to overcome omission by trying to find a direct way to communicate with the people such as online social media.

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