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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged gender identity

1. July 17, 2012 03:00 PM

   En-gendered

   Terms for sexual identity

   By Merrill Perlman

   Dealing with gender identity these days is a tricky business. And while we prefer to use “sex” to describe biological and procreative characteristics, “gender” has become the more common term to describe identity. A photo caption in The New York Times highlights the situation: A woman writing about her college experience said: “I used to say freshwoman until I was...

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2. August 3, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Olympics’s women coverage

   It should be about female athletes' achievements, but it's often more focused on their chromosomes

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Gender issues were threaded throughout the coverage of the Olympic games this week, beginning with the opening ceremonies, which showcased that, for the first time, all of the 204 delegations included a female athlete. London 2012 has been dubbed “The Year of the Woman,” noted...

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