Gender and Media Progress Study: South Africa

There has been a marginal increase of one percentage point in the proportion of women sources in the news in South Africa from 19% in the 2003 Gender and Media Baseline Study (GMBS) to 20% in the Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS).

This is a percentage point higher than the regional average of 19%, but lower that the global average in the 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) of 24%. There are, however, variations between individual media houses from Kaya FM at 29% and to Business Day and The Citizen at 13% each.

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Download : Acknowledgements, Executive Summary
Download : Chapter 1: Introduction
Download : Chapter 4: Gender in newsrooms
Download : Chapter 5: Gender-based violence and the media
Download : Chapter 6: HIV and AIDS and the media
Download : Conclusions and recommendations