ILO pioneers gender campaign, The Guardian...
ILO pioneers gender campaign, The Guardian
Date: January 1, 1970
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The International Labour Organisation (ILO) embarks on initiative to ensure equality in the workplace.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) embarks on initiative to ensure equality in the workplace.
This article may be used to:
- Highlight the problems with events based coverage.
Trainer’s notes
This article shows how the media is event driven. Gender often is a news item when reporters cover workshops and seminars. Very few gender stories emanate from a coverage of trends and processes which require an investigative analysis of issues.
The story is based on an event, it is weak in a gender analysis for the following reasons:
- The angle of the story is the workshop;
- The only source in the story is the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (office and an official);
- The link between gender equality in the work place and poverty is not well developed; and
- The story does not explore the gender relations between women and men in the workplace
Training exercise
Exercise one: Read the case study and discuss:
- How this story could be told from a different angle?
- What angle would you develop?
- Who would you interview?
- How would you develop your angle from a gender perspective?
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