Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS)

Under the Gender and the Media ax, Gender Links Mauritius did several training sessions with media houses and journalists across Mauritius. A strategic and sustainable plan has been by GL through the setting up of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the various media houses to ensure follow-up after the training. GL has equally run […]

Name of article/story: Women kick their way into football Name of Publication: Times of Zambia Date: 17 April 2015 Country: Zambia Football is a game which from time immemorial has been considered to be that for men or boys. The gender roles assigned by society have prescribed football as a game to be played by […]

NAME OF THE ARTICLE: Women’s bodies in advertising Name of Publication: Times of Zambia Date: April 2015 Country:  Zambia The above picture is among many other pictures where women’s bodies are selling services and goods through advertising. In this picture, a young mother and her baby are selling the services a mobile company in Zambia […]

Name of article: Why Daily News thrives against all odds Name of publication: Daily News Date: 9 April 2015 Country: Zimbabwe Theme: Gender Equality Skills: Language Genre: News GEM classification: Gender Aware Description: This is a profile of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) Group Chief Operating Officer, Sharon Samushonga, who has managed to lead the […]

NAME OF THE ARTICLE:  I’m prepared to stay in this marriage at all costs NAME OF THE PUBLICATION: New Vision Newspaper DATE: 7 April 2015 COUNTRY:  Zambia This is a story of a woman who vows that she is not ready to stay on in the marriage despite being subjected to gender based violence (GBV). […]

NAME OF THE ARTICLE: Man found guilty of killing his wife NAME OF PRINT MEDIA: Seychelles Nation COUNTRY: Seychelles Date: 3 April 2015 THEME: GBV GENRE: News GEM Classification: Gender blind Description: The report is about the sentencing of a man to life in prison for the brutal murder of his wife. For the article […]

Gender, media, diversity and changeÀ is a 20 minute documentary based on the Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS) that involved monitoring the media from a gender perspective in 14 Southern African countries between 19 October and 16 November 2009.

There has been a marginal improvement in the proportion of women sources in the news in the
region from 17% in the 2003 Gender and Media Baseline Study (GMBS) to 19% in the 2010 Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS).

South Africa

November 2011