ABSTRACT
The chapter tracks women’s marginalization at all levels of the media – in content, employment, and policy-making – to illustrate ways that women’s public voice has been muted in news and entertainment. This unequal relations of power has worsened under neoliberal communications policy, which has served to consolidate the economic and political power of white wealthy male media owners while limiting access for women and people of color in decades when they were advancing in other ways. The author argues for a return to a “public interest” model in media regulation that integrates the interests of (and access by) women and people of color in media ownership.
