‘Mansplaining’ UK election coverage marginalises women’s concerns, study finds

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves was ranked fourth in the amount of media coverage received after Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Observer

General election coverage has been dominated by male voices, according to researchers from Loughborough University.

Academics from the university’s Centre for Research in Communication and Culture have conducted news audits for every general election since 1992. They analyse TV coverage from BBC One, ITV1, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky’s evening news bulletins, plus print reporting by the UK’s broadsheet and tabloid newspapers.