The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Globalization Discourse: The Same Old Story in U.S. Newsmagazines

Abstract

This quantitative and qualitative analysis of Time and Newsweek explores how women are incorporated into a globalization discourse that often is seen as a masculinized public sphere. Results indicate that although female journalists integrate women into the news more than their male counterparts, females are invisible in globalization discourse. When discussing female empowerment via globalization, it is through an economic lens with an eye to the impact on women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.