{"id":10212,"date":"2020-12-21T10:43:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=10212"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:51:00","slug":"women-and-news-an-overview-of-audience-behaviour-in-11-countries","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/women-and-news-an-overview-of-audience-behaviour-in-11-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and News: An Overview of Audience Behaviour in 11 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/women-and-news-overview-audience-behaviour-11-countries#germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women and News: An Overview of Audience Behaviour in 11 Countries<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/julia-behre\/\">Julia Behre<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/staff\/sascha-hoelig\">Dr. Sascha H\u00f6lig<\/a> share their findings from the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report on women&#8217;s news consumption in Germany.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Auszug<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Even in a wealthy and democratic society like Germany, there are several difficulties when it comes to the relationship between women and the news. We can observe striking gender inequalities in both news consumption and production that must be seen in the context of broader social and political structures. German data from this year\u2019s Reuters Institute Digital News Report reveal several findings: women show less interest in politics and in the news and access it less frequently than men.<\/p>\n<p>Behre, J.; Hoelig, S. (2020): Germany. In: Women and News: An Overview of Audience Behaviour in 11 Countries. Reuters Institute Report. Online: <a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/women-and-news-overview-audience-behaviour-11-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/women-and-news-overview-audience-behaviour-11-countries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@reifus\">Raphael Ferraz<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/woman-reading\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-10212","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Women and News: An Overview of Audience Behaviour in 11 Countries - Leibniz HBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/women-and-news-an-overview-of-audience-behaviour-in-11-countries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women and News: An Overview of Audience Behaviour in 11 Countries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Women and News: An Overview of Audience Behaviour in 11 Countries, Julia Behre and Dr. Sascha H\u00f6lig share their findings from the 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News Report on women&#8217;s news consumption in Germany. 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