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Review 2013: Talk on the Radio<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

There is a weekly radio show on the German station Deutschlandradio Kultur, every saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. called\u00a0<\/span> Radiofeuilleton – Im Gespr\u00e4ch<\/a> (Conversations). This is a show with one or two expert guests in the studio and listeners calling in on changing topics. Once before on Sept. 8 I blogged on this show\u00a0 (<\/span>Listening to the\u00a0Radio<\/a>), yesterday they broadcast the last show of 2013, so let\u2019s look back on the whole year with 52 shows today.<\/span>
\n The variety of topics with regularly switching male and female presenters is big, however the guest list is a bit more onesided: more than half the shows only had male guests (27 of 52), an all-female panel occured five times (approx. 10 %). 20 shows, this is less than 40 %, had male and female experts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Radio_2013_en\"<\/a>Of course there is no need for a gender parity on each show, but overall, looking on a year\u2019s programmes, such an imbalance does seem quite remarkable (but not unique of course, considering the guest lists of talk shows on German TV, and possibly also in other countries), and not a positive signal. What might be the reasons? Are there really so many topics that only male experts can talk about? Is it just customary to mainly invite men, or is it thoughtlessness? Were female experts that had been invited simply reluctant to go on air? This summer I wrote to the people behind the show, I was promised an answer, but up to now I have not received it. Unfortunately.<\/span>
\n Well, instead of speculating on possible reasons let\u2019s just have a look at the topics of the shows with men-only<\/span>– and women-only<\/span><\/strong>-panels. I have marked the shows with only one guest instead of two in red<\/span>, not knowing whether only one person was invited or the second person had declined.<\/span><\/p>\n

Topics of shows without men:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n