Women make up less than a quarter of people appearing in Swiss print and online media articles, a figure which has hardly changed since 2015, according to a study. Apart from a short-lived small boost in 2019, most likely due to the women’s strike and national elections, the share of women appearing in Swiss media articles has remained around 23%, the University of Zurich said on Thursday. While the numbers are nearly identical across the German, French, and Italian-speaking regions of the country, they vary more widely when it comes to the type of article, as well as the newspaper in question. Women are least present in sports (13%) and economics (17%) articles; they most appear in “human interest” (31%) and culture (27%) articles. In politics, they are right on the overall average of 23%. As for individual papers and websites, the WOZ weekly has the highest female presence (29%), ahead of public broadcaster rts.ch (27%) and blick.ch (27%). The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (19%)...
