2016 Postmortem
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A Gendered Breakdown of the 2016 Democratic Convention Speakers
Now that the Democratic National Convention has closed, we looked back to identify gender differences in total speakers and speaking time. In this post, we also compare the gender parity in convention voices between the DNC and RNC, finding that women were seen and heard more at the Democrats convening.
By our count, there were 236 speakers over the DNCs four days, not counting invocations, benedictions, or narrative videos. Ten individuals spoke twice, but were counted as one. Of those 236 speakers, 119 or 50.4 percent were women; 117 or 49.6 percent were men. In comparison, women were just 26.1 percent of the 111 speakers at the RNC.
Forty-nine of the 119 female DNC speakers or 41 percent were currently elected women, and four more were formerly elected women. Elected officials were better represented among the men who spoke at the DNC; 62 of 117 male speakers or 53 percent are currently holding elected office. Twelve other men who spoke held previous elected office. Just eight elected women, and one formerly elected woman, spoke at the RNC, representing a smaller proportion of women speakers (26 percent) than the DNC slate. The proportion of elected officials among the RNCs male speakers was also lower (43 percent) than at the DNC, but higher than among their female counterparts.
While men and women were equally split in number among DNC speakers, there are differences in how long men and women were at the convention podium. Of about 21.5 hours of speaking time, just over 12 hours was occupied by male speakers at the DNC; womens spoke for slightly over nine hours 43 percent of the total speaking time across the conventions four days. The gender disparities in speaking time can be accounted for, in part, by the dominance of men among the individuals who spoke the longest. While Hillary Clinton spoke for about one hour, the next four longest speeches were given by men: President Barack Obama (50 minutes), former President Bill Clinton (44 minutes), Senator Tim Kaine (33 minutes), and Senator Bernie Sanders (33 minutes).
The gender disparities in speaking time were greater at the RNC, where women spoke for just 24 percent of the total time; even excluding the nominees (Trump and Pence), 72 percent of the speaking time was given to men.
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2016/08/02/a-gendered-breakdown-of-the-2016-democratic-convention-speakers/
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)niyad
(113,553 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)Slow strides. I can hardly wait for the day government representation itself reaches gender parity
niyad
(113,553 posts)will achieve gender parity in congress in about a hundred years.