ABSTRACT

Despite journalism’s commitment to ethical principles such as accuracy, humanity and diversity, compliance with the gender perspective in content is still minimal in approximately one hundred countries. This inequality reinforces misperceptions, imbalances, and perceived differences between men and women. To address this situation, from 2010 to 2021, eight Spanish media companies appointed a new editorial position responsible for self-regulating gender equality. This qualitative study focused on 10 journalists who currently exercise or have exercised that job, to detect, describe and propose the implementation of this new professional role. This study suggests that gender editing has advanced equality in parity of sourcing and the presence of women in the opinion sections, but implementation of equality in overall content is more difficult. Gender editors’ daily work is hampered by a lack of management support and an absence of independence in editorial decisions.

摘要

尽管新闻业致力于准确性、人性化和多样性等道德原则，但在大约一百个国家中，在内容中遵守性别观点的情况仍然很少。这种不平等加剧了男女之间的误解、不平衡和感知差异。为了应对这种情况，从 2010 年到 2021 年，八家西班牙媒体公司任命了一个新的编辑职位，负责自我调节性别平等。这项定性研究聚焦于 10 名目前从事或已经从事该工作的记者，以发现、描述并提出实施这一新职业角色的建议。这项研究表明，性别编辑在来源平等和意见栏目中女性的存在方面促进了平等，但在整体内容中实现平等更加困难。