Elisabeth Gidengil is Hiram Mills Professor and director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship at McGill University. She was educated at the London School of Economics, New York University and McGill University. Her research centers on voting behavior and public opinion in Canada, with a particular interest in gender and representation. She has been a member of both the 1993 and 1997 Canadian Election Study teams and is co-author of Making Representative Democracy Work, The Challenge of Direct Democracy and Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election. Her current research focuses on the impact of gender on television news portrayals of political candidates. Recent work includes studies of sex differences in the imagery used in reporting on male and female candidates and sex differences in sound-bite selection. Her research project will examine whether television journalists’ choice of language is conditioned by the sex of the candidate being reported.
Talking Tough: Gender and Reported Speech in Campaign News Coverage
January 1, 2000
A paper by Elisabeth Gidengil, spring 2000 fellow, and Joanna Everitt from the Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick – St. John, builds upon the concept of “gendered mediation” to argue that conventional news frames construct politics in stereotypically masculine terms – which has implications for the coverage of female leaders. Content analysis
