Confidence trick—the great disappearing act that keeps women experts off the air

The revelation by researchers from Loughborough University that 91% of press coverage of the EU referendum campaign featured men will have come as no surprise to the delegates at the Women on Air conference – held at London's City University, on May 19. At the WOA conference, award-winning reporter Penny Marshall, ITN's social affairs editor, said she had never felt more excluded from a national debate in her life.