Abstract

Due to the problem of the scarce presence of women as sources in political news in the media, this study observes what type of journalistic treatment is given to political information when its voice is feminine. To do so, we analyzed the content of four newspapers distributed in the capital of Chile and two regional media during 2007, 2011, and 2015 to study the number of sources of both genders present in political information, the amount of space assigned, the type of source, and whether the press uses men and women differently when framing the news with some of the five news frames proposed by Semetko and Valkenburg (2000). This analysis found that of the 2,569 sources analyzed, women appear as sources in 16.8%. In general, journalists does not treat men and women working in politics similarly, except in the case of the length of quotations. In light of the results, there is a need to promote a journalism that is more aware and willing to reduce these gaps through the visibility and normalization of women's participation in highly relevant political positions, spaces considered masculine until a few years ago.