This data research was conducted by searching keywords on the Guardian website. By entering the 5 keywords gender inequality, gender pay gap, unpaid work, gender unemployment, leadership, and then by year, time, we generated the results. According to the "Guardian" news release, sample analyses covered the period from mid-March to mid-June 2019 to 2021. Throughout the 3-year period, women were the most frequently reported word on gender inequality, demonstrating that people are still more concerned with the inequalities suffered by women. The 2019-word list contains the following words: pay, gap, work, and gender, with gender pay gap being the main concern before the epidemic. The following keywords appeared in the frequency table: lockdown, work, family, crisis, male, gender, etc., indicating that during the 2020 pandemic lockdown, the focus shifted from the women's pay gap to these terms. This demonstrates the impact of the pandemic on people's lives. When the epidemic gradually recovered in 2021, women were still the top keywords, and later words such as work, employer, job, gender, and young were added. This implies that reports of job searching increased during recovery, but that the gender gap remained.
Nevertheless. The analysis of the Guardian primary research has some limitations, as the end result is only a Guardian analysis and not a representative study of the entire news industry.
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