An upcoming Al Jazeera English broadcast on the gender gap in media will feature Sarah Macharia, WACC program manager for Gender and Communication and global coordinator of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). [caption id="attachment_50939" align="alignleft" width="300"] Sarah Macharia, WACC Gender and Communication program manager and...
Media play a significant role in perpetuating and challenging social norms.
...After 20 years, research in 114 countries reveals continued severe disparity between representation of women and men in news media.
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Preliminary results from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2015 reveal an increase of just 1% from five years ago when only 24% of the people heard or read about in print, radio and television news were female.
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Despite the vast number of media outlets and news sources worldwide, women and girls are still not getting enough attention in the news....
A recent study of Palestinian media shows that women are vastly under-represented on both sides of the news report, as journalists and in the content.
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