Media Development 2013/4 Building alliances for gender and media Gender stereotypes are one of the most persistent causes of inequality between women and men in all spheres, impacting both their professional and private lives. Media content influences the way people perceive reality and contributes to shaping gender...
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a nation that still maintains dominant stereotypes about women stemming from its patriarchal tradition. Women are generally perceived as inferior to men and often viewed only as sex symbols. This kind of misrepresentation of women is amply demonstrated...
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) has been a mechanism for transforming the media over the past 19 years and an anchor for gender reporting in many media houses. This article looks at its influence in some of the patterns and changes...
At the end of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process, which culminated in two international gatherings at Geneva (2003) and Tunis (2005), Annabelle Sreberny lamented “the tension between WSIS and the ‘real world’ politics of gender where the ongoing...
Cada cinco años desde el 1995, centenares de personas a través del planeta nos hemos dado cita para analizar cómo se representa a la mujer en las noticias de radio, prensa escrita, televisión y (en el monitoreo de 2009/10) en internet. Cada vez lo hacemos...
Los y las periodistas tienen la posibilidad y la responsabilidad, desde su tarea cotidiana, de contribuir a la modificación de estereotipos e imágenes negativas, mutando a construcciones que permitan ver a todas las personas como ciudadanas con iguales derechos y como protagonistas...
Media monitors at work in Senegal. Photo: FAMEDEV Communication is a key factor in tackling Gender Inequality. It can play a crucial role in empowering people to challenge gender norms, promote gender justice and positive relationships among all genders. For gender activists and advocates the challenges...
Almost twenty years after the Women Empowering Communication 1994 conference,1 communicators return to Bangkok in December 2013 to consider questions about gender equality and women’s empowerment in and through the media. This year’s meeting, dubbed the Global Forum on Gender and Media...
“Media pluralism is the key that unlocks the door of freedom of information and freedom of speech.” – Miklós Haraszti.1
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