“Gender Issue in Azerbaijani Media” launched
Date: February 6, 2012
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A brochure entitled “Gender Issue in Azerbaijani Media” has been launched to encourage women journalists in Azerbaijan to engage in trade-union work through training, networking, communication campaigns and lobbying and stand for election to the decision-making bodies.
Among other things, the leaflet recommends the introduction of quotas to increase the rate of representation of women in unions’ leadership positions; involving male colleagues in all gender equality related issues; and inserting gender equality provisions in collective bargaining agreements.
The publication contains a section on the current situation of women journalists in Azerbaijani media. The conclusions of the survey showed that female journalists count for 40-45 % of employees of national broadcasting TV stations, 25-30 % of employees of regional TV stations, 30-35 % of employees of national distributed newspapers and 20-25 % of employees of regional newspapers. Despite this fact, women representation in decision making bodies remains very low.
Only 10 women of all the editorial-offices surveyed were represented at the decision making level. Out of the most 15 famous journalist organisations, only one of these organisations leaders is a woman.
The “Gender issue in Azerbaijani media” leaflet consists of 43 pages and has been produced within the framework of the “Ethical Journalism Initiative-Azerbaijan” project which is implemented by the International Federation of Journalists together with the “Coalition for Freedom of Speech and Journalist Professionalism”. The coalition is composed of the Azerbaijan Journalists Trade Union, the International Eurasia Press Fund, the Journalists Democratic League, and the “Ruh” Committee on Protection of Journalists’ Rights. The “EJI-Azerbaijan” is a two-year project supported by the Delegation of the European Commission to Azerbaijan and the LO-TCO.
The gender leaflet is available for download at http://ejiaz.org/yeni.pdf
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