Sacrificing long hair and the domestic sphere: Reporting on female medical workers in Chinese online news during Covid-19

In the context of outbreak Covid-19 pandemic, female medical staff constituted a large proportion frontline healthcare workers in China, with 50% doctors and over 90% nurses being women. this paper, we aim to examine how these were represented at start pandemic online news reports posted on one China’s most popular social media platforms, Weibo. draw upon corpus-based critical discourse analysis, comparing representations those general. We observe that not only are portrayed through predominantly gendered lens, but they also subordinated needs state. consider role played by state-controlled regulating position (working) women society probe into rhetorical means which is achieved.