Misogyny barely registers in global news coverage

News organizations across the globe are consistently failing to report misogyny. An analysis of 1.14 billion online news stories published between 2017 and 2025 says “a pitiful 1.6%” covered misogyny-related harassment and violence against women and girls. The inaugural Global Misogyny News Coverage Tracker also notes that references to gender ideology, a term frequently “used by the global anti-gender equality movement,” increased by a factor of 42. “To cover the universal problem constructively and fairly,” the report says, “it is important for coverage to shift away from incident-based reporting to systemic narratives, acknowledging that the crimes are perpetrated by average men, not outlier monsters.”