Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political News: Analyzing the News Visibility of Members of Parliament in Norway and the UK

Research continues to find gender inequality in politics and political communication, but our understanding of the variation degree bias across systems is limited. A recent meta-analysis reveals how, countries with proportional representation (PR), media pay considerably more attention men politicians. In plurality systems, this absent. The present study proposes a new explanation for finding, emphasizing how size electoral districts moderates both demand supply women politicians news reporting. Analyzing than 600,000 appearances made by Norwegian British MPs from 2000 2016, we produce detailed picture biases visibility that speaks favor single-member systems. Although PR generally recognized as advantageous women, findings call nuanced link between equality.