… media – More often in the media) runs training course for women experts, to give them an understanding of how news is … made, and how gender imbalances develop. The courses teach women how to build a media profile, how to approach media … but also builds up long-lasting relationships between women experts and media professionals, which both sides …
… effects of pre-1990 gender equality polices persist, and women occupy many high-level positions, both editorial and … visits each day. Conscious of the restricted range of women’s contributions in its pages, Trud decided to go out … in the topics on which they write. The presence of more women’s voices acts as a monitoring system for the …
… has carried out two questionnaire surveys of its women members, to find out their experiences and problems at work. Forty per cent of the union’s 30,000 members are women, and research repeatedly shows that women get a bad deal in Britain’s media. Though women media …
… In 1997 it launched its online Expert Database to improve women’s visibility in the media and their access to … media organisations. The database now lists nearly 1,200 women from all areas of society. They include scientists and researchers, business women and managers, politicians, journalists and figures from …
… In brief The Journalistinnenbund, an association for women journalists in Germany with around 500 members, exists to support women journalists and improve their career opportunities and … so far run through seven cycles and mentored more than 70 women. The programme is targeted at younger women, although …
… In brief CELEM, the Spanish coordinator of the European Women’s Lobby, wanted to find a way to ensure that the … were that were likely to be sympathetic to the cause of women’s equality. It established a database of these names, … The existence of the database has raised the profile of women’s issues in the press, especially on the front pages …
… journalists working in Belgium, surveyed the position of women in the French-language media in Belgium. This study … that only 28% of people interviewed in the media were women, and that only 26% of newspaper articles and 29% of … campaigns in the future, to amplify its impact. One women in two is not seen or heard Belgium's French-speaking …
… agreement undertaking to strive to increase the number of women experts appearing in their programmes and articles. The … had been prepared by the Commission on the Image of Women in the Media, which was set up by the secretary of … over time. These include initiatives to recruit more women, in-house monitoring, working groups, …
… – meaning that half of the experts interviewed should be women. It has been able to do this at no great financial … of the production staff. First of all, there are fewer women in highly visible occupations such as politics, so … staff have to go out actively to find them. Secondly, women are habitually less confident about airing their …
… are human rights, and as such are the rights of both women and men. Across all areas of culture, human rights are … linked to culture. The socially constructed roles of women and men are culturally determined, and differ in time … construction, defined by the power relations between women and men, and the norms and values regarding ‘masculine’ …