Despite decades of advancement in education, politics, and economic participation, women remain dramatically underrepresented in European news media, according to findings from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2025 presented at a WACC Europe discussion last month. The key regional findings, delivered by GMMP European coordinator...
With progress towards media gender parity on a plateau, women’s rights advocates are taking time to pause, reflect, and innovate. Gender equality in the global news media is at a crossroads 30 years after the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, the 2025 Global Media...
Who makes the news in 2025? What progress has been made towards gender equality in and through the media over the past three decades? Given the evidence, what critical shifts should be made going forward? Leer en español Lire en français On Tuesday, 9 December at 9:00 am...
When a woman was elected as the new member of parliament for my area, I was appalled at the misogyny and abusive comments levelled at her personally whenever she posted on her official social media channels.By WACC Deputy General Secretary Sara SpeicherThe tragedy is, what...
A Beijing+30 reflection Exactly 30 years ago today, hope for a new dawn for women and girls was palpable. Governments and civil society that had gathered in Beijing for the Fourth UN World Conference on Women were united on a roadmap to end gender-based discrimination and achieve...
Three decades after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, progress towards gender equality in and through the world news media continues to flatline, according to newly released findings from WACC’s 2025 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). The Highlights...
Who makes the news in 2025? What progress has been made towards gender equality in and through the media over the past three decades? What can be done to address remaining gaps and current challenges? On Thursday, 4 September, WACC Global and the GMMP Network will...
“Very hands-on and a great learning experience,” is how Esta Yee sums up her summer internship as a project and research assistance with WACC’s Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Joining the GMMP team only a few weeks after the 2025 monitoring day, the fourth-year undergraduate student...
Esta Yee, a fourth-year undergraduate student in sociology and psychology at the University of Toronto, has recently joined WACC for a summer internship as a project and research assistant with the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). During the eight-week internship Yee is assisting with coordination of...
Thousands of volunteers gathered evidence of representation and portrayal of women and men in the news in some 120 countries on 6 May during the 2025 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP).Held 30 years after the inaugural GMMP, the 2025 edition of monitoring was the seventh...