When creating this word cloud, I took a look at some of the headlines of the articles I was using in to research this topic of how women and men are spoken about/portrayed differently in the media. Right away I could see descriptions used for women that were carefully chosen to paint a specific picture of villainous characters. These articles were about many different things, from relationships to business deals to even discussing women's successes. Most if not all of these words have negative connotations surrounding them, and in context they were not meant as compliments. Why can a woman only be "bossy", but never just a "boss"? One word in particular stood out to me as a word that sort of blurred the lines between a compliment and a diss; "diva". I found this word came up often when discussing a female celebrity that is successful and powerful. The choice to use the word diva can shape and change people's views on someone, while just stating what they allegedly did to make them a so called diva allows the reader to come to their own conclusion.

This word cloud was significantly more difficult to make than the one for women. I have found many articles and headlines when talking about men use facts and numbers rather than the descriptive words found when discussing women. Most commonly, the words for men surrounded their ability to achieve things, hence the words "boss" and "strategic". When discussing relationships, these articles used words that don't necessarily have inherently negative connotations such as "beau" and "playboy". Beau literally means beautiful, and the article where I got this headline is listing all of the relationships singer John Mayer has been in. Men are allowed to date whoever they want, with whatever age gap they want, with no negative repercussions most of the time. All of the words used to describe men have positive attributes attached to them.

"In the middle of October, three professors were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, professors at MIT, and Michael Kremer, a professor here at Harvard. Esther Duflo is the youngest person to win the Nobel Prize in economics, and only the second woman. Her laundry list of accomplishments include co-founding the Poverty Action Lab, directing the Center for Economic and Policy Research’s development economics program, and becoming one of the youngest faculty members to hold tenure at MIT. Duflo and Banerjee are married, only the sixth married couple to be awarded the Nobel prize. While a husband and wife duo winning the Nobel prize seems like an occasion to be celebrated, some media sources seemed to elevate one member of the couple more than the other." (Shawah).

Not only does this erasure of Women happen in the world of athletics or music, but it also is happening in the Economics community. The success of a married couple inspired the headline above; completely omitting the Woman's name, though she was also a recipient of this award. It was argued that headlines are meant to be a short, attention grabbing introduction to an article, and the word wife, being only four letters, was much easier to include rather than Esther Duflo's name. To that I say, why not reduce the 21 characters leading up to the Man's name to create this so called needed space to include an award winners name? While there might not be a clear and just answer to this rhetorical question, I think it is safe to say that the journalist who wrote this headline didn't even think twice about showcasing the Male in the article and allowing the successful Woman to fall into the shadows.