"On average across Asia and the Pacific, women make up 28.6 percent of the media workforce. The proportions are lower in decision-making roles in media organizations where women make up 17.9 percent of executive roles, 19.5 percent of senior editorial and 22.6 percent of mid-level editorial position
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s. There is a clear gender pay gap, with women on average earning US$436 per month, compared with men earning US$506 per month. In Malaysia, the pay gap is the smallest with women earning much higher money and at more equitable levels than the regional average. In contrast, Cambodia and Pakistan had the widest gender pay gap with men earning much higher salaries. Arguably, in Cambodia this could be due to more women journalists recently joining the profession. Women continue to be restricted by stereotypical beats, and face more job insecurity, lower wages and gender discrimination but they are multi-skilled and usually working across more beats than men." (Executive summary)
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"Este documento propone un conjunto de pautas destinadas a estandarizar el tratamiento informativo/comunicacional de la violencia contra las mujeres por razones de género. Intenta organizar y jerarquizar los puntos más relevantes sobre esta materia para ofrecer una guía práctica con la intenció
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n de orientar el abordaje de los hechos noticiosos desde un enfoque de género." (Página 1)
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"Television remains the most popular medium in all provinces surveyed and among the different groups of respondents. It is also the most preferred source of information, followed by Radio. A great majority of the population watches TV on a daily basis. More than half of the population spends between
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1-2 hours a day in front of a television. Women are more likely to watch television on a daily basis, while men are more likely to spend more time in front of a television at one time. The use of internet is increasingly becoming popular in Afghanistan. It is a close second to television, but internet users are spending fewer hours a day online. Women politicians are found to be the most frequent users of internet. With television and internet dominating media use habits, radio is found to be falling in popularity among the population [...] When respondents were asked to rank the most important issue that women face in Afghanistan, discrimination (70%), male dominance (70%) and gender abuse (65%) were among the top five. While there was no differences among respondents on the importance of security; access to education (80%) and lack of family support (64%) ranked among the top five most important issues for women." (Executive summary)
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"Este manual es de género y comunicación, y está pensado para que las personas que facilitan grupos de mujeres, las apoyen en la elaboración de sus testimonios de vida, a partir de una reflexión sobre por qué es importante retomar la palabra en todas sus manifestaciones, así como de la experi
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encia de vida tal como la percibimos." (O.3)
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"The report examines the links between the media’s promotion of unequal gender power relations based on stereotypical images of men and women and men’s expressions of dominance, control and violence in their everyday relationships with women and girls. It also explores media representations of m
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en and women in decision-making and leadership roles. Finally, it identifies the factors that support or constrain media professionals in promoting gender equitable masculine images and profiles selected mass media programmes that endeavour to reflect and promote gender equality." (Executive summary)
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"This study explores the spatial politics of Othering and whether women are marginalized in political conversations online in India. It's methodology consists of an analysis of 23,350 tweets over an eight-day period. It shows a significant underrepresentation of women in Twitter's political conversa
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tions, which mirrors a real-world marginalization of women in India's political processes." (Abstract)
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"O Programa Para Fortalecimento da Mídia, nesta sua terceira edição do relatório de Análise de Género na Mídia Moçambicana, avaliou 13 jornais impressos e electrónicos para identificar o estado da cobertura sobre o tema. Foram quatro a mais que no ano passado. No total, e em números absolu
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tos, 94 peças foram identificadas em 2013. Em 2014, foram 139 reportagens e notícias. Proporcionalmente, considerando o aumento do número de jornais analisados, houve um crescimento de 24% no total de peças publicadas. Dois factores combinados indicam que as questões de género estão sendo tratadas pelos jornalistas de maneira mais sistêmica, ou seja, como um problema nacional e não apenas de algumas localidades. No que diz respeito à abrangência geográfica dos conteúdos, em 2014, o total de peças de caráter nacional mais que triplicou. O segundo factor é que dos quatro critérios observados através da Ferramenta de Análise de Conteúdos (MCAT), utilizada pela IREX, Relevância e Estrutura das peças atingiram o nível quatro, ou bom. Até 2013, a pontuação havia chegado apenas no nível três, aceitável. O aumento no número de artigos classificados pela equipe de monitoria e avaliação da IREX foi de 73%, o que exigiu uma revisão metodológica para dar uniformidade comparativa às 139 peças, das quais 66 foram escolhidas para a análise de conteúdo, com base em critérios objectivos. Há ainda avanços que vão muito além dos números. Tendo em conta o funcionamento das redacções dos jornais, este relatório é um indicativo importante de que houve um amadurecimento na abordagem dada pelos jornalistas ao assunto. Repórteres e editores parecem lançar um olhar mais integrado, no contexto do que o tema representa para o país como um todo, ainda que seja necessário investir cada vez mais para melhorar aspectos como diversidade de fontes e imparcialidade." (Página 3)
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"Gaze Regimes is a bricolage of essays and interviews showcasing the experiences of women working in film, either directly as practitioners or in other areas such as curators, festival programme directors or fundraisers. It does not shy away from questioning the relations of power in the practice of
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filmmaking and the power invested in the gaze itself. Who is looking and who is being looked at, who is telling women’s stories in Africa and what governs the mechanics of making those films on the continent? The interviews with film practitioners such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Jihan El-Tahri, Anita Khanna, Isabel Noronhe, Arya Lalloo and Shannon Walsh demonstrate the contradictory points of departure of women in film – from their understanding of feminisms in relation to lived-experiences and the realpolitik of women working as cultural practitioners." (Publisher description)
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"Gender and Conflict Sensitive Journalism can be described as a tool for journalists and others who strive to understand conflicts in a larger context. It has been developed from peace and conflict analyses which indicate that the choices journalists make when they are reporting about conflicts affe
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ct not only our understanding of the conflict – but also what we perceive to be the solution. This, in turn, affects the conflict and its outcome. It challenges the image of journalists as neutral and objective purveyors of information, and describes media’s relationship with society as symbiotic." (Page 3)
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"Mobile value-added services (MVAS) represent a growing collaboration between the private sector and the development community. In this paper, we examine one such MVAS, the Nokia Usaha Wanita service running on the Nokia Life+ platform in Indonesia, and we assess its impact as an innovative means fo
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r the economic empowerment of businesswomen. Data were gathered through 282 telephone interviews with a nationwide random sample of women who subscribed to Usaha Wanita. Our research found evidence that subscribers derived economic benefit from using the service. Subscribers reported that their business profits were greater, because of what they had learned from reading Usaha Wanita content. Women who were subscribers also had higher "good month's" profits as well. Increased profits were positively correlated with frequent reading of the tips and information provided by Usaha Wanita and subscriber perception that the service was useful for business. Women who exhibited entrepreneurial optimism also had greater business profits. Findings suggest that entrepreneurial optimism amplified the effect of mobile phone use on profits." (Abstract)
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"La televisión peruana carece del conocimiento suficiente relativo al enfoque de género y por ello no lo aplica. El espíritu de la sociedad del espectáculo –por el cual todo se ve y todo se exhibe- condiciona la producción televisiva y su representación del género. Así, el noticiero espect
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áculo es vitrina para la masculinidad criminal mientras que el reality show es vitrina para la masculinidad y feminidad hegemónica. Esto no tiene frontera en cuanto a edades. Niños sicarios aparecen en los noticieros exhibiendo armas al cinto así sus rostros sean ocultos. Salvo excepciones, niños participantes de concursos son seleccionados más que por talento, en razón a sus atributos de seducción erótica, produciéndose una temprana hipersexualización. La hipersexualización se haya presente en la mayor parte de programas, subrayando por encima de otras, las características corporales de los personajes televisivos protagonistas de shows en vivo y reduciendo a la persona a estas características." (Conclusiones, página 19)
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