Stylist.co.uk has announced that Laura Whitmore has taken over as part of the Visible Women campaign. Stylist’s Visible Women campaign – which launched in January 2018 – aims to give more women a voice and champion gender equality. Not only are women still shockingly underrepresented in positions of power and influence, but a recent survey of bylines and editorial photographs in the print editions of the Times, Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Mail has revealed that three quarters (77%) of comment articles are written by male journalists. Two thirds (65%) of all articles in the news and business sections of the newspapers are by men. And national newspapers in the UK are mostly written by male journalists, despite the fact that women make up nearly half of the profession. When Laura Whitmore published her article on the #MeToo movement earlier this year, it made a lot of people sit up and pay attention. The article can be viewed here.

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