London, July 20 (ANI): The BBC has been accused of being 'testosterone-fuelled' after nine times as many male experts rather than women were shown on its flagship nightly news bulletin, a research reveals.
According to The Daily Mail, nearly all the interviewees appearing on the BBC's Ten O'Clock News were male.
The study, carried out over a week, found there was a night last month when only one woman featured on the programme 'in any capacity at all' - and she was on for only seconds.
City University London researchers carried out the study for industry magazine Broadcast.
Anti-discrimination campaigner Miriam O'Reilly said she was not surprised.he said: 'I saw the news on June 13. I was actually shouting at the screen "Where are the women?"'
A BBC News spokesman said: "We do take the issue seriously and are working to improve the gender balance, although the BBC cannot dictate who organisations put forward for interview."
Lis Howell, director of broadcasting at the university, said even for broader topics such as gay marriage, male interviewees were used 'for every aspect of the story'.
The academic said: "Never mind women experts - there weren't any UK women at all".
'Our monitor noted that within the 27-minute programme, the only woman to feature appeared in an item about the Egyptian elections. How ironic is that?" it added.
Howell said that because women journalists often appeared on the programme, such as Stephanie Flanders, as well as presenters Sophie Raworth and Fiona Bruce, there was an impression women were being fairly represented.
In her article she said the 'extravagant' amount of time given to sport was part of the problem.
The research also revealed that the only Ten O'Clock News 'package' with more women than men in during the week was about poor families in Greece. (ANI)
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