A quantitative study of gender representation and authors' gender in a large-market print medium

Abstract

We analyse gender representation in articles published by the Austrian daily newspaper 'Der Standard' in the years 2021 and 2022. We use named entity recognition and automated gender classification of first names to count the number of female and male persons in articles. The analysis reveals the dominance of male persons in article content. We find that female authors exhibit a significantly higher tendency to mention female persons in their articles.