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A Spanish fishing boat sunk in the Atlantic. It carried 24 men. Only three survived. Ten died, and eleven are missing (presumably dead too).

In this tragic incident, men are as overrepresented as is mathematically possible. The “gender gap” here would be literally infinite.

This is how the top five Spanish newspaper by circulation (thus with different political views and biases) reported initially the event :
El Mundo,
ABC,
El País,
La Vanguardia,
20 Minutos.

How many times does the word “hombre(s)” (“man/men”) appear in the bodies of all the articles, in total? Zero. Not a single mention anywhere.

How many times does the word “mujer(es)” (“woman/women”) appear? Three. Once in ABC, twice in 20 Minutos (to refer to the wives of two of the fishermen).

How many times the non-gendered word “persona(s)” (“person(s)”)? Ten times. Non-gendered “marinero(s)” (“sailor(s)”)? 17 times. Non-gendered “tripulante(s)” (“crew member(s)”)? 28 times.

Your homework: find comparable events, statistics, or areas of life where the imbalance is very large (or even just large) against women, and where media coverage uses only non-gendered words or in some other ways leaves out entirely all information about gender composition.

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