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The Media Has A Women Problem In “The Media Has A Woman Problem” by Liza Mundy, she argues that women are singled out in the media because of the problem with women. Mundy claims that the representation of women in media has not changed as much as one may think. This is because more than sixty percent of reporters are male. The author then discusses that males in journalism tend to “be highest in prestige or ‘hard’ topics.” Contrastingly, for women in the media, are said to report “in ‘soft’ subjects”. Mundy lists the publications who let men dominate their opinion columnists. She then states that she does not know why the disparity of women in the media exists, and that newsrooms attempt to recruit women to pursue journalism,
The Media Has A Women Problem In “The Media Has A Woman Problem” by Liza Mundy, she argues that women are singled out in the media because of the problem with women. Mundy claims that the representation of women in media has not changed as much as one may think. This is because more than sixty percent of reporters are male. The author then discusses that males in journalism tend to “be highest in prestige or ‘hard’ topics.” Contrastingly, for women in the media, are said to report “in ‘soft’ subjects”. Mundy lists the publications who let men dominate their opinion columnists. She then states that she does not know why the disparity of women in the media exists, and that newsrooms attempt to recruit women to pursue journalism,