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Gender Conversations with Men: Using Film as a Tool. Facilitator's Guide

Cape Town: Steps (2021), 13 pp.

"This guide uses the STEPS Facilitated Film Screening Methodology to give facilitators the tools to encourage male to male conversations based on the Learning Cycle. Although the main focus is on male engagement, discussion guidelines and activities can also be adapted to mixed gender groups. Facili ... more

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Pioneras en los estudios latinoamericanos de comunicación

Yamila Heram, Santiago Gándara

Buenos Aires: Teseo (2021), 209 pp.

"Este libro tiene por objetivo visibilizar y reconocer las contribuciones de las mujeres pioneras en los estudios de comunicación en América Latina, y lo hace con un doble propósito. Por un lado, como aporte a la historia del campo de la comunicación, a la que pretende completar con estas otras ... more

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Hear #MeToo in India: News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism

Pallavi Guha

New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 142 pp.

"Hear #metoo in India examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment feminist activism in India. Including 75 interviews with rural and subaltern feminist activists and journalists working in urban and rural regions of India, the book proposes a nuanced framework of agenda ... more

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Gendered Social Media Communication Around Mining: Patriarchy, Diamonds, and Seeking Feminist Solidarity Online

Juliet Gudhlanga, Samuel J. Spiegel

Gender & Development, volume 29, issue 2-3 (2021), pp. 369-390

"Although it is increasingly well-known that mining generates a vast array of gendered impacts, less studied is how women in mining zones have turned to online social media to articulate concerns and mobilise for collective action. This article explores how gendered social media communication has co ... more

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Publicidad y estereotipos: Una relación de alto riesgo

Buenos Aires: ONU Mujeres Argentina;Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) (2021), 59 pp.

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Engendering AI: A Gender and Ethics Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in Africa

Favour Borokini, Sandra Nabulega, Garnett Achieng

Pollicy (2021), 22 pp.

"Although AI solutions have the potential to drive growth and development across major sectors such as finance, agriculture, and healthcare, the AI industry is currently still based in North America, Europe, and Asia, with Africa, unfortunately, still underrepresented (Jungblut, 2020). This is a thr ... more

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Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes, and Consequences of Gender Equality in and Through the News Media
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Monika Djerf-Pierre, Maria Edström (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2020), 338 pp.

"Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe addresses longstanding questions in the study of gender equality in media content and media organisations across countries and over time. Drawing on data from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), European Institute for Gender Equality (EIG ... more

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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-Media-Centric Perspectives

Jo Helle-Valle, Ardis Storm-Mathisen (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), 250 pp.

"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on ... more

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Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration: Women Migrant Workers and Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) Edition
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Deepa Bharathi, Swathi Jakkula, Rebecca Napier-Moore, Valentina Volpe

International Labour Organization (ILO);Spotlight Initiative (2020), 23 pp.

"This glossary serves as a guide for journalists, researchers, trainers and other stakeholders who conduct trainings or write about women’s labour migration, and who write about violence against women in the context of migration. It has been compiled as part of the EU-UN Spotlight Initiative to El ... more

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Suffering in Silence: The Resilience of Pakistan’s Female Journalists to Combat Sexual Harassment, Threats and Discrimination

Sadia Jamil

Journalism Practice, volume 15, issue 2 (2020), pp. 150-170

"Pakistan’s journalists confront severe safety risks across the country and impunity to crimes against them allows the perpetrators to go unpunished. Now the country is recognized as one of the deadliest places for working journalists in the world. Given this situation, the Pakistani female journa ... more

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A Gender Analysis of the Media Landscape in Iraq

Aida Kaisy

Washington, DC; London: Internews (2020), 35 pp.

"Corrupt practices, political financing and institutionalised patriarchal systems have seen the media fail to provide equitable coverage of women’s issues or indeed include women as decision-makers organisationally. Both the audience and media stakeholders are acutely aware of the lack of ethical ... more

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Evaluating Academic and Media Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey, Sacha Meuter

International Journal of Market Research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57

"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im ... more

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Women and Leadership in the News Media 2020: Evidence from Ten Markets

Simge Andi, Meera Selva, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 6 pp.

"In this RISJ factsheet we analyse the gender break-down of top editors in a strategic sample of 200 major online and offline news outlets in ten different markets across four continents. Looking at a sample of ten top online news outlets and ten top offline news outlets in each of these ten markets ... more

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You Really Have to Have a Thick Skin’: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on How Online Harassment Influences Female Journalists

Gina Masullo Chen Chen, Paromita Pain, Y. Victoria Chen, Madlin Mekelburg, Nina Springer, Franziska Troger

Journalism, volume 21, issue 7 (2020), pp. 877-895

"In-depth interviews with 75 female journalists who work or have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America reveal that they face rampant online gendered harassment that influences how they do their jobs. Many of the women report that if they aim to engage ... more

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Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints

Geneva: ITU (2020), x, 80 pp.

"In the 1991 cyclones that hit Bangladesh, 90 per cent of the 140 000 victims were women. In the deadly heat waves that hit France in 2003, most fatalities were elderly women. During the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency in New Orleans, most of the victims were Afro-American women and their children. ... more

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Work-related sexual harassment and coping techniques: The case of Indonesian female journalists

Deborah N. Simorangkir

Media Asia, volume 47, issue 1-2 (2020), pp. 23-33

"Female journalists make up only between five to 10 percent of the total journalists in Indonesia. Consequently, this often gives women little bargaining power in the workplace. This research analyzes the prevalence and nature of sexual harassment experienced by Indonesian female journalists, as wel ... more

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What foolish risks we took

Gill Martin

British Journalism Review, volume 31, issue 4 (2020), pp. 45-50

"A former news reporter looks back with horror at the news desk assignments that placed young women journalists in danger." (Abstract)

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Contemporary Women Filmmakers in Myanmar: Reflections on a Visit in February 2019

Valentina Vitali

Bioscope, volume 11, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-91

"Existing accounts of Myanmar’s film industry available to English speakers are more than twenty years out of date. Opening with a brief overview of cinema in Myanmar since 2000, this article is based on a recent visit to the Myanmar Motion Picture Development Department and the Yangon Film School ... more

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The Contribution of Citizen Views to Understanding Women’s Empowerment as a Process of Change: The Case of Niger

Emma Heywood, Maria Tomlinson

Feminist Media Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2020), pp. 713-729

"This article investigates citizen’s views on women’s empowerment as a process of change in Niger, the lowest country on the Human Development Index where women suffer widespread gender inequality. It draws on semi-structured interviews with radio and civil society organisation (CSO) representat ... more

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Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World

Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi

Albany: State University of New York Press (2020), xiv, 152 pp.

"Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women's social movements as well as female figures and online communities emerged to create positive change and demand equality with men. In Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World author Ahmed Al-Rawi discusses and maps out n ... more

Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes, and Consequences of Gender Equality in and Through the News Media Top Insights

Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration: Women Migrant Workers and Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) Edition Key Guidance

Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes, and Consequences of Gender Equality in and Through the News Media
Top Insights

Media-Friendly Glossary on Migration: Women Migrant Workers and Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) Edition
Key Guidance