Female politicians get twice as many sexist comments on social media
Source: Belga News Agency
Women in politics receive twice as many sexist comments on social media as their male colleagues, writes Het Laatste Nieuws on Tuesday. This also applies to local councillors and politicians with an immigrant background.
Research by the Institute for Gender Equality, ULB and UGent, which analysed 44,000 reactions to politicians' posts on Facebook, Instagram and X, shows that every four out of 10 comments are negative.
Women receive many more negative comments, especially sexist ones. For female politicians, four per cent of all comments are sexist, compared to two per cent for men.
Women with a migration background receive twice as many negative comments as women without a migration background. Groen co-president Nadia Naji told Het Laatste Nieuws: "My colleague Jeremie Vaneeckhout gets comments about what he says. With me it's about my hair".
Read here the full article published by the Belga News Agency on 8 October 2024.
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Women in politics receive twice as many sexist comments on social media as their male colleagues, writes Het Laatste Nieuws on Tuesday. This also applies to local councillors and politicians with an immigrant background.
Research by the Institute for Gender Equality, ULB and UGent, which analysed 44,000 reactions to politicians' posts on Facebook, Instagram and X, shows that every four out of 10 comments are negative.
Women receive many more negative comments, especially sexist ones. For female politicians, four per cent of all comments are sexist, compared to two per cent for men.
Women with a migration background receive twice as many negative comments as women without a migration background. Groen co-president Nadia Naji told Het Laatste Nieuws: "My colleague Jeremie Vaneeckhout gets comments about what he says. With me it's about my hair".
Read here the full article published by the Belga News Agency on 8 October 2024.
Image by the Belga News Agency
