Abstract

Newspapers are meant to circulate vital and national information to people in and out of a country. This paper investigates the content of gender headlines or columns of Daily graphic newspapers in Ghana. Genders, a matter of importance is discussed every day in newspapers, especially the daily graphic, which is the official national newspaper of Ghana. As part of its relative captions under which issues are discussed daily is ‘Gender’. The paper seeks to investigate what gender information constitutes the discussions made or carried out in the column. This paper employs content analysis and corpus linguistics as a major tool to facilitate this investigation. Results from the analysis indicate that though the grammatical description of gender constitutes male and female, the study revealed that about 85.6% of issues discussed in the newspaper under ‘gender’ are on about women or female.