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Manual de comunicación no sexista: Hacia un lenguaje incluyente

Claudia Guichard Bello

Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (INMUJERES) (2018), 318 pp.

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Papua New Guinea: Women in the Media

Media for Development Initiative; ABC International Development (2018), 15 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the profile of women in the Papua New Guinea media sector, focussing on major or signifcant media outlets in the capital, Port Moresby. The purpose of this report is to provide background information and analysis needed to make recommendations to overcome barrier ... more

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Toward Gender Equality: Women and the Media in Vietnam

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 36 pp.

"The Gender-in-Media Landscape Study (Vietnam) aims to inform the activities of the Southeast Asia Media Training Network by exploring gender equity in the media workplace. Towards this end, data was gathered through a broad survey and multiple focus group discussions. The survey found: More women w ... more

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The Work of Women’s NGOs on Commercial Radio in the West Bank: Frustrations and Shortcomings

Emma Heywood

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 59-75

"This article examines the work of women’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on West Bank radio as they represent women, a marginalized community, within a patriarchal, traditional and religious society. It also examines the commercial and societal difficulties faced by radio stations in their ... more

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Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon

Natalie Khazaal

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press (2018), 325 pp.

"Pretty Liar" explores the rise of language and gender politics on Lebanese television to tell the untold story of the co-evolution of Lebanese television and its audiences and how the civil war of 1975-1991 affected that co-evolution. The shift in public interest in television has been widely ackno ... more

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Setting the Gender Agenda for Communication Policy: New Proposals from the Global Alliance on Media and Gender

Aimée Vega Montiel, Sarah Macharia (eds.)

Paris: UNESCO; Global Alliance on Media and Gender (2018), 173 pp.

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Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”

Susan Wyche, Jennifer Olson

Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47

"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w ... more

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Gendering Leadership in Vietnamese Media: A Role Congruity Study on News Content and Journalists’ Perception of Female and Male Leaders

Hong Tien Vu, Tien-Tsung Lee, Hue Trong Duong, Barbara Barnett

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 95, issue 3 (2018), pp. 565-587

"This study combines two research methods to explore how female leaders are portrayed in the news in Vietnam, and Vietnamese journalists’ perception of female and male leaders. Content analysis indicated that female leaders are under- and misrepresented. Female leader sources seldom appear in the ... more

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Ugandan Women Online: A Quantitative Survey on Digital Literacy in Uganda

Pollicy; Internews (2018), 21 pp.

"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal ... more

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Guide Note to Gender Sensitive Communication

UNDP Lebanon (2018), 6 pp.

"Bias free-language is important because language reflects on the attitude in communication. Words and audiovisual selection have also a critical role in achieving greater gender equality. Therefore, messages should be carefully examined based on the six following principles: 1. Ensure that women an ... more

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Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
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Oliver Rowntree

London: GSMA (2018), 28 pp.

"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi ... more

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Her Farm Radio: Building Knowledge and Developing the Capacity of Malawi’s Female Farmers on Forest Landscape Restoration

Augustine Mulomole, Catherine Mloza Banda, Rex Chapota

IUCN (2018), 12 pp.

"As farmers, foresters and providers, women have a unique understanding of the ecosystems they live alongside. A pioneering radio programme in Malawi is tapping into this immense body of knowledge by creating a platform for women to engage in landscape restoration." (Page 1)

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Mapping Research in Gender and Digital Technology

Anri van der Spuy, Namita Aavriti

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 147 pp.

"Increasing number of reports, initiatives and efforts are focused on addressing women’s ability to enjoy universal, acceptable, affordable, unconditional, open, meaningful and/or equal access to information, the internet and ICTs. These include, but are not limited to, the recent work of civil so ... more

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The Status of Women Journalists at Jordan’s Media Institutions

International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 35 pp.

"The study concluded that women have faced and are still facing hindrances driven by gender-based discrimination that have limited their number, dimined their role as journalists and restricted their prospects of professional development. The percentage of women at media organisations is less than 2 ... more

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Final Evaluation: Gender Sensitive Public Communication Project

Melike Karlidag, Bérangère Pineau Soukkarieh

Search for Common Ground (2018), 68 pp.

"The Gender Sensitive Public Communications Project was implemented by Search for Common Ground in Lebanon, together with its local partner Abaad, with an aim to promote women’s participation in politics through the production of gender sensitive television drama and short films. Specifically, the ... more

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Women in Israeli Journalism Israel Affairs

Einat Lachover, Dafna Lemish

Israel Affairs, volume 4, issue 3 (2018), pp. 500-518

"This article presents findings from investigations of acclaimed gender employment changes in Israeli journalism, focusing on two main questions: Is the feminisation process of Israeli journalism continuing? Is it improving women’s employment and occupational status? Data were gathered from two in ... more

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TrollBusters: Fighting Online Harassment of Women Journalists

Michelle Ferrier, Nisha Garud-Patkar

In: Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment

Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Tracy Everbach (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 311-332

"For women journalists, online harassment may result in emotional stress and may require legal and technological remedies to mitigate the damage caused to their identity and reputation. Perpetrators can use a combination of online and offline attacks that threaten the employment and safety of journa ... more

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What Works to Prevent Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls?
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Becky Faith, Erika Fraser

London: VAWG Helpdesk (2018), 16 pp.

"This document presents findings from a rapid review of available literature on what has worked to prevent cyber violence against women and girls. Key findings include: There is limited data on cyber violence against women and girls (VAWG) in general, and particularly on what works to prevent it [.. ... more

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Dignity for Dead Women: Media Guidelines for Reporting Domestic Violence Deaths

Janey Starling

Level Up (2018), 17 pp.

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Gender and Media: A Holistic Agenda

Media Development, volume 65, issue 1 (2018), pp. 4-40

Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018 Top Insights

What Works to Prevent Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls? Top Insights

Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
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What Works to Prevent Cyber Violence Against Women and Girls?
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