CONDOLEEZZA'S IN THE (WHITE) HOUSE, BUT THE GAME GOES ON.

The article presents the author's comments on media and women with reference to the recently held elections for the British Labour Party leadership in Great Britain. The way in which the media differentially framed the British Labour Party leadership contest, cruelly caricaturing the only woman in the race--Margaret Beckett--while eulogizing candidate, Tony Blair and rendering Gordon Brown, another candidate, almost invisible, shows the way men and women are represented in media. The Global Media Monitoring Project took a snapshot of how women were portrayed in news media across the world, involving 70 plus countries each time. As someone involved in all three studies, it saddens the author greatly to realize that the same narrow repertoire of story themes that have traditionally been associated with women subjects--motherhood, eye candy, victim of male violence--are as prevalent now as they ever were, not to mention the continued marginalization by the news corps: the proportion of news stores that feature women has around 18 percent over the past 10 years.