and susan bates found the item "disgusting".: now, it has long been the case that you are more likely to see or hear a man interviewed on a news programme and a woman. —— than a woman. news editors might argue that most senior politicians and business leaders, for instance, are male, but when choosing contributors because of their knowledge and experience rather than their position, there is a wider pool to draw on. so why did recent city university research find there were more male than female experts on programmes? things have changed since all male discussion panels were the norm, but audiences still detect a lack of balance when a special edition of newsnight recalled that a problem there was a panel with only three women on a panel of 17 people. outside source, shown daily on bbc world news has for more than a year been monitoring the gender of those featured on its programme. it has since been seen to have achieved an equal balance. problems including the one show and the news at ten is now taking part in what the bbc are

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and susan bates found the item "disgusting".choosing contributors because of their knowledge and experience rather than their position, there is a wider pool to draw on. so why did recent city university research find there were more male than female experts on programmes? things have changed since all male discussion panels were the norm, but audiences still detect a lack of balance when a special edition of newsnight recalled that a problem there was a panel with only three women on a panel of 17 people. 0utside source, shown daily on bbc world news has for more than a year been monitoring the gender of those featured on its programme. it has since been seen to have achieved an equal balance. more than 80 other bbc programmes are now taking part in what the bbc is calling the 50—50 challenge. and this week the corporation announced its aim to achieve an equal gender split in what it called "expert voices" by next year. some members of the audience applauded the move, with one writing on twitter, "the bbc has a gender equity pr