GENDER & NEWS SUMMIT
Steps in the Gender, SDG, Media 1. Inception meeting (Feb) 2. Buy –in (Feb-March) 3. Baseline monitoring (March) 4. Handbook (April) 5 Training and field work (UN Women) –May/ June 6 Summit – August 7 Sixteen Days of Activism (Nov/ Dec) 8. Endline Monitoring
Research over the years GMBS 2003 GMAS 2005 HIV, AIDS and Gender 2006, 2008 Mirror on Media- Advertising, Tabloids, Radio Talk Shows Glass Ceiling 2009 GIME 2010 GMPS 2010 GMPS 2015
More female than male students WHAT WE NOW KNOW More female than male students
40% women within the media Question: what happens to the women we train?
Varies by country 7
Women absent from the top 8
Which medium? 9
Women: missing voices 10
Country variations 11
Latest research Tanzania https://datastudio.google.com/reporting/1uUsynsvuhJPJrrO-UYpa3mramC_LuVm9/page/UptT 12
Armchair journalism? Single sources Foreign versus local Secondary sources Own reporter/ agency 13
Gender aware stories About gender issues Women/politics Balance sources Non traditional roles Challenging stereotypes Critical of women Diversity 14