This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three
professional spheres: politics business and the mass media. Despite significant career
progress made by women leaders in these professions many British newspapers continue to
portray these women in stereotyped and essentialist ways: the extent to which this occurs
tending to correspond with the political affiliation and target readership of the newspaper.
The author analyses news media articles through three fresh perspectives: first Kanter's women
leader stereotypes second a feminist agenda spectrum and third a new 'reflexive' approach
based on Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis. This book will appeal strongly to
students and scholars of discourse analysis and media studies and anyone with an interest in
language gender leadership and feminism.
