Who is in the news? Women and men, counted every five minutes since 2015.

Six countries, one method

Pick a country. Each page has the full record the tracker holds: every news site ranked, the share of women over time where the data spans years, sections and sport, bylines where they were measured, and the dataset as CSV.

How it counts

Every five minutes since 2015 the Gender Equality Tracker has read the newly published articles on a country's largest news sites and counted the female and male first names, the gendered pronouns and kin words. A first name counts only when national statistics put it above 95% for one gender. The result is a live, continuous measure of who is in the news, comparable across countries because the method is the same everywhere.

It does not understand the story. A woman quoted as a minister and a woman named as a victim count the same, so this is a measure of visibility, not of framing. Independent manual studies such as the Global Media Monitoring Project land on very similar numbers.

The Gender Equality Tracker is a project by Prognosis, the Swedish data studio behind AO.news, running since 2015. The Nordic countries are still tracked live. The British and German trackers have ended; their pages hold the period for which the complete readings are preserved.