Media and political involvement of women from the perspective of genderissue affinity

Abstract

A common understanding people have when studying the newlinerelationship between media and politics is that greater involvement of women newlinein politics would lead to greater sensitisation of genderrelated issues in newlinepolitical sphere and consequentially bring greater gender parity Increased newlinewomens involvement in politics is expected to bring increased equality This newlineassumption parallels studies done in western countries on the phenomenon newlinecalled genderaffinity effect which claims that women voters will most newlinelikely vote for female candidates Dolan 2008 newline newline