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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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Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide
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Silvia Chocarro, Sarah Clarke, Paulina Gutiérrez, Judy Taing

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2020), 231 pp.

"Online harassment and abuse against women journalists has become a major hazard to the profession. One that threatens women journalists’ ability to do their jobs. It violates their right to freedom of expression as much as it hampers free and open access to information for all members of society. ... more

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Amplifying Women’s Voices: A Gender Balance Guide for Media
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Rebecca Zausmer, Simone Flueckiger

World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); Women in News (2020), 33 pp.

"This guide aims to equip media organisations and professionals with the necessary tools and insights to increase gender balance in their content. It should help you to: understand the importance of gender balance in content; identify the different ways in which the media gender stereotypes; underst ... more

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Egalité et diversité dans le secteur audiovisuel européen: Manuel de bonnes pratiques

Daphné Tepper

Partenaires Sociaux du Comité de Dialogue Social Européen Dans le Secteur Audiovisuel (2020), 77 pp.

"L’éventail des actions que les partenaires sociaux et les autres acteurs du secteur peuvent mettre en oeuvre pour promouvoir l’égalité des sexes et la diversité est vaste. Il couvre aussi bien des stratégies coordonnées et à long terme que des actions à plus petite échelle qui ont un i ... more

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Capítulo de género, igualdad y diversidad

María Eugenia Álvarez, Cynthia Benzion, Sandra Chaher, Ludmila Fernández López, Belén Spinetta

Asociación Civil Comunicación para la Igualdad; SembraMedia, Centro Internacional para Periodistas (ICFJ) (2020), 58 pp.

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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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Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol

Sara Polak, Daniel Trottier (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 266 pp.

"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati ... more

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Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality

Ahmed Nauraiz Rana

Washington, DC: International Finance Corporation (IFC) (2020), 7 pp.

"Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, is a highly complex and challenging undertaking. We must address multiple issues—discrimination, violence, education, employment, economic resources, and technology—and work across economic sectors ... 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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Good for Business: Creating Inclusive Media Businesses in Myanmar
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New York: Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) (2020), [31 pp.]

"Our inclusion survey, conducted with 35 private media outlets operating in Yangon and in seven ethnic states and five regions, provides up-to-date inclusion and gender data about the sector. Among the findings: while many women work in media (they represent 33% of the combined staff of the 35 outle ... more

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Gender and the Media in the Western Balkans

Huma Haider

Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 42 pp.

"This rapid literature review explores the role that media in the Western Balkans plays in issues of gender (in)equality. The countries discussed are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia [...] While there is a body of literature that discusses a ... 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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Reaching 50 Million Women with Mobile: A Practical Guide

Dominica Lindsey et al.

London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2020), 41 pp.

"The persistent gender gap in mobile access and use is already well documented, as are the significant benefits of closing it. Across low- and middle-income countries today, women are eight per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone, 20 per cent less likely to use mobile internet and 33 per ... more

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A way to silence journalists? Estonian female journalists’ experiences with harassment and self-censorship

Signe Ivask

In: Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship

Ingrid Fadnes, Anna Grøndahl Larsen, Roy Krøvel (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), pp. 114-129

"The aim of the study is to investigate Estonian female journalists’ experiences with harassment resulting in self-censorship. We carried out three studies: one in 2015, a second in 2016 and a third one in 2018. The data were gathered by in-depth interviews (2015 and 2018), journalists’ diaries ... more

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Radio Journalism and Women's Empowerment in Niger

Emma Heywood

Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 10 (2020), pp. 1344-1362

"The significance of radio as a provider of essential news and information in conflict-affected and fragile countries cannot be underestimated nor can its role in contributing to shifts in critical consciousness, changes in behaviour, and raising awareness amongst marginalised groups. This is partic ... more

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Women's Rights Online: Closing the Digital Gender Gap for a More Equal World

Chenai Chair, Ingrid Brudivg, Calum Cameron

Washington, DC: World Wide Web Foundation (2020), 30 pp.

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Summary Report: Justice4her 2.0. Strengthening Rule of Law to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 7 pp.

"Justice4Her is a cross-sector, multi-stakeholder project of RNW Media and Qianqian Law Firm that seeks to strengthen the rule of law and reduce gender-based violence (GBV) towards women migrant workers in China. The project launched in 2016 and targets women migrant workers in Beijing, Shanghai and ... more

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Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in Côte D'Ivoire

Frédérick Madore

Africa Today, volume 67, issue 2-3 (2020), pp. 17-38

"This article analyzes the career path of Aminata Kane Koné, a highly educated Ivorian Muslim woman, who has emerged as a female figure of success. A prominent activist of the Association des Élèves et Étudiants Musulmans de Côte d'Ivoire in the 2000s, she has become a self-made religious entre ... more

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Fighting Violence Against Women Online: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Frameworks in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda

Chioma Nwaodike, Nerissa Naidoo

Internews; Pollicy (2020), 25 pp.

"The highest levels of regulation, from international treaties to constitutions, are unambiguous about creating an environment in which women thrive. However, this egalitarian space must be progressively realized, and one aspect of this work is eliminating discrimination, including in relation to ge ... more

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Media and Social Representations of Otherness: Psycho-Social-Cultural Implications

Terri Mannarini, Giuseppe A. Veltri, Sergio Salvatore (eds.)

Cham: Springer (2020), xiv, 148 pp.

"This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of "otherness" in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000-2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that c ... more

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide Key Guidance

Amplifying Women’s Voices: A Gender Balance Guide for Media Key Guidance

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

Good for Business: Creating Inclusive Media Businesses in Myanmar Top Insights

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

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide
Key Guidance

Amplifying Women’s Voices: A Gender Balance Guide for Media
Key Guidance

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

Good for Business: Creating Inclusive Media Businesses in Myanmar
Top Insights

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