>>82197170Then it means that male journalists have a higher risk to be killed. If the killings weren't gendered, then the amount of women amongst killed journalists would be approximately as high as the amount of women amongst journalists, say, worldwide. But it's way lower than that. However, this only is valid, if you don't take into account supporting information.
However, if the pool of female journalists killed comes, say, from a specific region where the number of killed women is disproportionally high, then it could again point to a gendered problem in this specific region, whereas these statistics could be distorted by different ratios of men or women killed outside that region.
You need a lot of extra information to make sense of these 19%.