How media attention harms female political candidates

By Daphne Joanna van der Pas, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
Loes Aaldering, Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tobias Rohrbach, Early postdoctoral researcher, University of Fribourg

A video of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin dancing at a party was leaked in August 2022. There was massive media reaction to what was, essentially, a young female politician having a good time. Accusations spread like wildfire, to the point where she had to take a drug test in order to quell speculation about her personal life.

Although Marin was cleared…

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