Have You Heard? - Asia Edition

1. Women in Asia made up only 21% of people seen, heard, or read about in newspaper, radio, television and digital news in 2020, which is below the global average of 24% to 25%, according to GMMP.

2. In online news in India, men are quoted six times more frequently than women.

3. A survey done by the Reuters Institute of Journalism in 2020 showed that none of the news outlets in Japan had a female top editor. Based on the dataset of 10 countries surveyed – which included Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea– the results showed that only 23% of the 162 top editors across the 200 news brands covered were women.

4. In Silicon Valley, Asian women were the most underrepresented and, therefore, the least likely to hold leadership positions, with the ‘Asian effect’ being 3.7 times greater than the ‘gender effect’ as a glass ceiling factor.

Have you heard of the 'Asian Effect'?

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If you would like to read more about this topic, you can visit the following links:

https://waccglobal.org/asias-representation-of-women-in-the-news-still-below-global-average/

https://www.trust.org/i/?id=b8b6eb53-3dc6-44bc-8529-89fc5cc30ef7#:~:text=Women%20in%20Asia%20made%20up,25%20percent%2C%20according%20to%20GMMP.

https://www.thewomens.network/blog/representation-of-asian-women-in-the-media