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Evaluation of Gender Biases in National News and Tabloid Articles

Simran Wohra, M.A. Linguistics and Sukanto Roy, Ph.D.

Abstract

This research evaluates gender biases in national newspapers, Bangladesh’s Reputed Daily Newspaper The Daily Star articles (main edition including sections-- news, city, country, international, editorial, opinion, sports, art, and entertainment) and Lifestyle tabloid articles conducted with in-depth analysis of sexist elements. It examines sexism in Bangladesh’s news and tabloid articles by pattern analysis, article titles, gender-based words and issues, and contrast with relative theories related to feminist stylistics and toolkit provided by Mills (1995). This study uses a mixed-method approach and conducts surveys with readers to enhance the reliability of the findings on understanding and perception of sexism in these publications. The paper showed significant gender/sex bias in Bangladesh’s Leading English Daily, Lifestyle tabloid articles, and the respondents’ perceived presence of imbalanced gender portrayal in newspapers and magazines. However, due to a lack of materials and survey responses, this study cannot be generalized to all the newspapers or populations of Bangladesh.

Keywords: Bangladesh, newspaper and tabloid, gender biases, sexism, gender studies, feminist, stylistic, linguistics.

Sexism or gender biases in the language are comprehended as gender-discriminating language, with more attributes towards a preferred gender, also known as androcentric (male-centric) language, primarily pointed out by Lakoff’s (1973) study on Language and Woman’s Place. However, these differences have decreased over the centuries after the rise of feminism and women’s power; English is a less-gender-based language but is influenced by a patriarchal society. In South Asia, women are still facing gender discrimination. At the same time, there is global research on gender discrimination in different sectors like workplaces, the film industry, education, and many more, but little addressing gender biases in newspapers language; this paper evaluated the language through the lens of gender biases in the context of Bangladesh and its reputed daily newspaper The Daily Star and Lifestyle tabloid linguistics. The Reputed newspaper The Daily Star is one of the most well-renowned English newspapers in Bangladesh, with online e-news and tabloid articles that are constantly updated. They publish numerous supplements, including Lifestyle tabloids.

The news and tabloid articles’ data are collected through pattern analysis, article analysis, title analysis, and gender-based word and adjective identification, as per the feminist stylistics toolkit, according to Mills (1995).

The objectives of the present study are:

1. To identify linguistic gender biases in the news and magazine articles.
2. To find if the audiences perceive gender biases from newspaper language.

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Simran Wohra
M.A. Linguistics
North South University
Dhaka 1229, Bangladesh
simran.wohra@northsouth.edu

Sukanto Roy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English and Modern Languages
North South University
Bashundhara, Dhaka 1229
Bangladesh
sukanto.roy@northsouth.edu
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