GAMAG

9. A Feminist Perspective on Gender, Media and Communication…

SETTING THE GENDER AGENDA FOR COMMUNICATION POLICY

A Feminist Perspective on Gender, Media and Communication Rights in Digital Times

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan and Nandini Chami

In 2005, the UN convened the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The resulting WSIS Tunis commitment acknowledged that ‘the full participation of women in the Information Society is necessary to ensure the inclusiveness and respect for human rights within the Information Society, (encouraging) all stakeholders to support women’s participation in decision-making processes and to contribute to shaping all spheres of the Information Society at international, regional and national levels.’

2. Gender Equality, Policy and Media Structures

SETTING THE GENDER AGENDA FOR COMMUNICATION POLICY

Gender Equality, Policy and Media Structures

Carolyn Byerly

The convergence of traditional print, broadcast and cable with digital (computer) formats requires that we understand ‘ICTs’ (information and communications technology) to include the wide array of media used for personal, interpersonal, and mass communication in today’s world. Women must have full access to these media, at ownership, employment and personal levels.

3. A Hard Ladder to Climb: Women and Power…

A Hard Ladder to Climb: Women and Power in Media Industries

Karen Ross

When women media professionals attain very senior editorial positions, their achievement continues to make front page news, as it is such a rare occurrence. When Jill Abramson became the first woman editor at the New York Times in 2011, she broke a run of 160 years of male editors. When Katharine Viner did the same thing at the Guardian in 2015, she ended an even longer reign of exclusively male editing history. One of the world’s most respected media institutions, the BBC, has never appointed a woman Director General since it began life under John Reith in 1922. Further, its publication of top earner salaries in the summer of 2017 revealed startling differences, in some cases as much as 300% between women and men doing the same job. These three examples demonstrate that even media organizations which enjoy a significant reputation for their content seem to ignore issues of gender equality in relation to who produces and edits such content.

Setting the Gender Agenda for Communication Policy: Case studies

Case 1. The Broadcast Media Regulators: Gender Equality Drivers

Amina Lemrini Elouahabi

Case 2. African Union of Broadcasting: Gender Integration in African media

Evelyne Faye

Case 3. Sustaining Women-Led Community Media in the Pacific region; the femLINKpacific Experience.

Sian Rolls

CSW2018: The holistic media and gender agenda

An analysis and key findings of the 2018 GAMAG position papers

GAMAG in collaboration with UNESCO organised a side event at the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to discuss position papers on gender and media (see sample here) prepared by members of the Alliance.

Watch the video here

Panelists:

Guy Berger, Director of Freedom of Expression and Media Development, UNESCO
Aimée Vega Montiel, Researcher, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Vice-President, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and GAMAG Interim Chair
Sarah Macharia, Global Media Monitoring Project, World Association of Christian Communication (WACC) and GAMAG Interim General Secretary
Carolyn Byerly, Professor, Howard University, USA
Claudia Padovani Senior Lecturer, Padova University, Italy
Mindy Ran, International Federation of Journalists

Other coverage: https://en.unesco.org/news/holistic-gender-and-media-agenda-focus