… ONLUS association was created in 2008 to make the way women are presented in the media a matter of public debate, … media publishers direct feedback on the way they portray women and report gender issues. Early in 2009 it launched the … different generations, to the relationship between men and women. In order to promote a civil consciousness on these …
… 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 …
… Rundfunk (ORF), investigated the position of women in its organisation and found a widespread gender imbalance. While women make up 42% of its workforce, they are concentrated in … and salaries. In the period to spring 2013, 80% of managers took part in the company’s new and obligatory gender …
… 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 … career in which competition for jobs is high, and that managers exploit this: while in the media and arts in general …
… In brief To redress women’s poor representation and career prospects in the … film and TV industry, the membership association WFTV (Women in Film & Television UK) runs a mid-career mentoring scheme for an annual cohort of 20 women. It is targeted at women with at least five years of …
… 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 the world …
… Télévisions employs some 11,000 staff, of whom 43% are women. They are over-represented in areas like human … there has been a noticeable increase in the number of women appearing in expert roles in some programmes. In order … for cinema. It employs some 11,000 staff, of whom 43% are women. Women are over-represented in certain jobs (i.e. human …
… 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 disparity is even greater, with only 20% of female managers. The share of women on media company boards is even …
… Although Romanian civil society is sensitive to women’s issues, this is not reflected in the way media … appoint staff nor in their editorial policies. Few women rise to top jobs in the media, and media organisations pay little attention to gender. In fact women play a subordinate role in public life generally, and …
… 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 … the causes of the under-representation of women; to push managers in the industry to achieve gender equality in …
… 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 …