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#WomenLead (Issue 21): Your weekly round-up on women in politics

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Oct 11, 2020
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Hello, and welcome to Issue 21!

A new study has confirmed what we have pointed out so often in this newsletter: when the news media covers women politicians, it tends to focus less on their work and more on their fashion choices, emotional temperaments, and family lives. Women are also often presented as “novel” in politics, Melanee Thomas and others wri…

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