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IRISH RADIO CONTINUES to be dominated by men, with female voices making up an average of only 28% of broadcasting time on current affairs shows, according to a new report.
The study found that Newstalk programmes are the least gender balanced, with 82% of the station’s airtime being taken up by men, compared to 18% for women.
Today FM fills 70% of interviews with male voices and 30% with female, while RTÉ Radio 1 broadcasting time breaks down 63% male and 37% female.
The study, by the National Women’s Council of Ireland and Dublin City University, monitored gender balances across news and current affairs programmes for three weeks.
Newstalk’s Talking Point with Sarah Carey had the highest proportion of female voices, at 55%.
The worst offender was RTÉ’s This Week, with 90.5% male voices, followed by Newstalk Breakfast, Down to Business, The Right Hook and The Pat Kenny Show.
Experts
The report also found that male experts fill up a disproportionate amount of broadcasting time across all three stations studied.
Between 78% and 85% of on-air experts are male, accounting for an average of 73% of political voices, 80% of economics experts and 85% of speakers on science or technology.
Women are also spoken about less frequently, making up an average of only 38% of news subjects on all shows – 33% on RTÉ Radio 1, 30% on Today FM and 27% on Newstalk.
The study recommends that programmes undertake gender reviews as part of their weekly and monthly reviews, and appoint individuals to monitor gender breakdown and ensure at least 30% of on-air voices are female.
It also calls on stations to add more female experts to contact databases and set minimum targets in relation to gender roles.
Read the full report here.
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Throw him into a cell and leave him there until after Christmas.
Give the culprit free legal aid , 3 meals a day in prison , free access to education , 1/3 off for remission that he doesn’t have to earn. Get the eejits that work to pay for it , & take a few euro off the pensioners & disabled to fund it .., god bless Fine Gael .. Soft on crime but tough on the law abiding citizen .
How can this be ok to do. A 70 year kid man attacked by 2 sc€mbags. They’ll both be laughing about this over Christmas while that man will never be ok to pick up people again. So on top of the assault and theft this poor guys livelihood is probably finished. These thugs will get free legal aid a slap on the wrist and set free to do it all again.
This country is gone to the dogs. They should make a public spectacle if people like this. They speak of human rights but what about that taxi drivers rights. Aghhhhhhh
Sickening
As a Taxi Driver in Tralee and some that represents all taxi drivers on the Taxi Advisory Committee I wish to condemn this attack on an innocent taxi driver out trying to make a living.
This taxi driver is no out of work for the Christmas and New Year.
I’m calling on the public to please respect Taxi Drivers during this busy period and if you do happen to see a driver in difficulty stop and help him/her.
Taxis in other countries are all fitted with Web cameras front and back of vehicle. It probably would have prevented this and at worst would have identified the coward who ran away.
Fit web cameras in all taxis, it will protect your drivers. This could have been spotted at Base but more than likely would not have happened because of fitted cameras.
Have them sweep the streets with a tooth brush
Castrate them..sure it does the dogs on the street good. Calms them down ten fold.
Typical cork behavior. Sean been buggered
Another man fascinated by Cork.
I should explain my comment lads. It was directed at Sean T Bugger, a cork native, who has a snide comment to make everytime anything happens on Dublin’s northside. No offense meant to anyone else.
Get a room then.
fantasti;c information with your journal my e mail address is danielgreydog@YAHOO.CO.UK LEFT GLANMIRE WHEN I WAS 20YROLD BUT STILL KEEP IN TOUCH WIT WHAT IS GOING ON IN CORK AM 78 NOW HAPPYY DAYS SPENT IN GLANMIRE
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