Women make up about one-third (32%) of the people being talked about or interviewed in the major European newscasts. Data published by the Observatory of Pavia - that for the third year has monitored the presence and the representation of women in European television news - while registering an increase of three percentage points compared to 2012 - still shows a low visibility of women in the news.

The most significant increase was recorded by German TV news (+8%) and UK (+7%) where 30% is reached, while Spain (36%) and France (33%) confirm their own data, on average higher. Italy, despite last year’s slight progress (+1%), showed a percentage of women visibility in the news steady at 25%.

Low participation of women in political information (23%) and lowest in sport (11%): women are mainly respondents as sources of popular opinion (52%) and become news when they are victims of crime (9% compared with 4% of men).

48% of European news broadcasts are, however, women-run: in Italy the share of female journalists exceeds 50%. High in some countries, the percentage of female journalist’s correspondents and/or authors of services: 61% in Spain, 54% in Italy, 47% in France, 36% in Germany and 27% in England.