Tracking Project

After following the newspapers for the past seven days, the numbers I found didn't actually surprise me that much. The Front page had approximately 36 mentions of men and 18 mentions of women. The sports page had at least 50 mentions of men and less then 15 mentions of women. However, what surprised me is that the business section had almost an equal amount of men and women mentioned, but mostly because I found there were a lost of spokeswomen used for quotes and also the Life section had almost twice as much male influence than female, 2:1.

The only mentions of race I could find were in the Life section, one referring to blacks and another referring to Irish immigrants. A lot of times there were simply large pictures of the people they were referring to, and many times I noticed that the larger pictures were those of black people.

I didn't find a lot of C suites mentioned, surprisingly, but I was astonished at the number of spokeswomen used. There were two females I noticed that were titled as Vice Presidents, other than that it was very broad.


"That's the last time I mention Galaxy Quest at a Trek Convention!"
"Run you fool!"
"He's a witch!"
"BURN THEM!"