Media, Information and Communications

Mozambique held the 6th General and legislative elections. For the first time held the provincial governors elections. Gender Links Mozambique joined the Observatory Group who were monitoring the elections at […]

Formações sobre a integração do género nos pleitos eleitorais A Gender Links Moçambique realizou nos dias 11-16 do mês de Setembro, uma formação que reuniu jornalistas e membros de partidos […]

Gender Links in November held a two day media workshop and seminar on effective communication on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTI) issues in Africa.

Over 200 participants from 65 countries gathered at the United Nations for the International Development Cooperation Meeting on Gender and Media and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) general assembly last week.

The World Association for Christian Communication is consolidating findings of the fifth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). Coordinated by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), the GMMP is a worldwide media monitoring, research and advocacy project implemented collaboratively with women’s rights organizations, grassroots groups, media associations, faith-based organizations, university students and researchers across the world.

Nova Iorque, 15 de Março: HÁ¡ vinte anos atrÁ¡s, eu era uma jovem jornalista que trabalhava para o Serviço Feminino de Feature, com sede em Nova Dehli, onde produzia um jornal diÁ¡rio em Pequim. Não tÁ­nhamos E-Mail. TÁ­nhamos que ir de autocarro de Hourou preencher cerca de três horas de distância, para a principal reunião da ONU, para de lÁ¡ enviarmos as nossas notÁ­cias e reportagens. Na época havia conservadores prontos para desvalorizar os frÁ¡geis ganhos das mulheres. Hoje, pode-se dizer, tanta coisa mudou, mas muito continua na mesma!

Fact file Country South Africa Media House Phalaborwa Baseline score Latest score Proportion of women sources Gender Policy Yes Joined the COE programme June 2013 Summit No Full media profile […]

New information will soon be available on progress on the proportion of female versus male sources in news content as well as where women are sitting in terms of decision making positions in the media.

With only 2 years to go before the 2015 deadline for the targets of the SADC Gender Protocol, media laws and policies remain weak on gender provisions. Results from the 2010 Gender in Media Education study showed that there are more women than men in media studies, but more male than female lecturers.

Sexist stereotypes, humiliating photographs of women and male by lines dominate the front pages of British newspapers, according to research carried out by the industry body Women in Journalism (WiJ).

I vividly remember 18 years ago, when I joined a big daily newspaper in the centre of Johannesburg, South Africa as a news reporter. A woman photographer bounced up to me with an unusual introduction: “You have a little baby, don’t you?” I said yes.

As we celebrate Press Freedom Day in May it is a painful reality that women in the media still have to work 10 times more than their male counterparts and fight to earn recognition both in Zimbabwe and neighbouring South African newsrooms.

Despite having many females attending journalism schools, women often disappear from the newsrooms