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Gender Mainstreaming in the Media: The Issue of Professional and Workplace Safety of Women Journalists in Nepal

Laxman Datt Pant

In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism

Sadia Jamil, Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman, Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 194-210

"Media sector, in Nepal, has been vibrant and it is flourishing across all media outlets with about 1,000 newspapers, 600 radio stations, about five dozen television channels and more than 2,200 online news portals currently in operation across the country. Despite such an impressive figure, the rel ... more

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Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism

Sadia Jamil, Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman, Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), xxiv, 459 pp.

"Today, a variety of gender-based threats and discrimination continue to characterize journalism. Both male and female journalists are prone to online and offline threats, casual stereotypes in their routine work, and discrimination (especially in terms of job opportunities, promotion, and pay-scale ... more

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Unmasking Gender-Based Violence in Venezuelan Media

Mariateresa Garrido

In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism

Sadia Jamil, Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman, Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 251-267

"The Venezuelan government has been instrumental to implement different types of gender-based violence and discrimination. Reports demonstrate that women have been killed, that their economic power decreased, and that they experienced problems related to access to education, health services, jobs, e ... more

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Female Journalists and Safety Challenges in Selected Media Organizations in Kano State, Nigeria

Hadiza Jummai Ibrahim, Binta Rabi'u Spikin

In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism

Sadia Jamil, Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman, Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 366-393

"Journalism schools have being witnessing an increase in female enrollment in Nigeria, but this is not proportional to the number of women who work in media organizations. For the women who eventually get employed as journalists, they experience various safety challenges which affect their advanceme ... more

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Conclusion: Fostering Gender Equality and Safety in Journalism Profession

Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman

In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism

Sadia Jamil, Baris Çoban, Bora Ataman, Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 394-298

"Journalism is a two-faced mirror that both generates and reflects social inequalities: Both people's experiences within news organizations and the content published by them make the gender inequality visible. We can define journalism, just like all other patriarchal institutions, as an institution ... more

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Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence

Krishanti Dharmaraj

New Brunswick: Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL); State University of New Jersey Rutgers (2021), 322 pp.

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The new frontline: Women journalists at the intersection of converging digital age threats

Julie Posetti

In: Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting

Kristin Skare Orgeret (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), 18 pp.

"The chapter identifies the new threats posed by digital developments and how they affect women journalists in particular. There are three main converging safety threats confronting women journalists in the digital age: online harassment and abuse against women journalists; orchestrated disinformati ... more

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In Their Own Words: Afghan Women Journalists Speak

Annie Philip, Laxmi Murthy, Yirmiyan Arthur, Jane Worthington, John Troughton

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ); India (NWMI) Network of Women in Media (2021), 18 pp.

"Comprising several interviews with women journalists both inside and outside of Afghanistan, the report highlights the threats to life and livelihood imposed by the new regime. As the Taliban imposes new restrictions on the media, including a dress code on women journalists, there is continued resi ... more

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Women in Newsroom in Nepal

Indira Aryal

Center for Investigative Journalism (2021), v, 35 pp.

"The participants of the survey were limited to working women journalists in Kathmandu valley. Out of 87 journalists that participated in the survey two- third of journalists are young, the work force comprises between age group 20 to 40 years. Majority of journalists work in the private news media, ... more

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FrauENTscheiderinnen bewegen die Welt

Weltzeit (Deutsche Welle), issue 1 (2021), 43 pp.

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Sexual Harassment in the Media: Africa Report

Cherilyn Ireton (ed.)

Paris: World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2021), 51 pp.

"Almost half of women respondents had been sexually harassed at work (47%). Women were twice as likely to experience sexual harassment at work than men. For one in two women, the harassment was verbal (56%), and for one in three, it was physical (38%). Only 30% of cases of sexual harassment were eve ... more

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Gender Approaches to Cybersecurity: Design, Defence and Response

Katharine Millar, James Shires, Tatiana Tropina

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) (2021), 70 pp.

"This report outlines the relevance of gender norms to cybersecurity. It draws on existing research, supplemented by stakeholder and expert interviews, to assess gender-based differences in the social roles and interaction of women, men and non-binary people of all ages reflected in the distribution ... more

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Who Makes the News? 6th Global Media Monitoring Project
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Sarah Macharia (ed.)

Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP); World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2021), v, 157 pp.

"At the global average level, mainstream news media are currently at the midway point to gender parity in subjects and sources. Between 2015 and 2020, the needle edged one point forward to 25% in the proportion of subjects and sources who are women. The single point improvement is the first since 20 ... more

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Pioneras en los estudios latinoamericanos de comunicación

Yamila Heram, Santiago Gándara

Buenos Aires: Teseo (2021), 209 pp.

"Este libro tiene por objetivo visibilizar y reconocer las contribuciones de las mujeres pioneras en los estudios de comunicación en América Latina, y lo hace con un doble propósito. Por un lado, como aporte a la historia del campo de la comunicación, a la que pretende completar con estas otras ... more

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The Celluloid Ceiling: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Israeli Film Industry

Lior Elefant, Etty Konor-Attias, Yael Hasson, Noga Dagan-Buzaglo

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Adva Center (2021), 86 pp.

"This report examines the Israeli film industry from the perspective of gender. Over the past twenty years, there has been a growing involvement of women in the Israeli film industry. Since the establishment of Israel and up until the year 2000, women directed a mere 7% of screened Israeli narrative ... more

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The Costs of Exclusion: Economic Consequences of the Digital Gender Gap

Ana María Rodríguez Pulgarín, Teddy Woodhouse

Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2021), 22 pp.

"Governments are missing out on hundreds of billions of dollars because of the digital gender gap. Closing this gap in the next five years gives policy makers a $524 billion USD opportunity. Across the world, millions of people are still unable to access the internet and participate online — and w ... more

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Feminist and Gender Perspectives in Literature on Media & Development
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Viviane Schönbächler

Forum Medien und Entwicklung (fome); MEDAS21 (2021), 24 pp.

"Gender remains an under-researched topic in the literature on media and development. A brief evaluation of seven books on media development and media for development shows that only 2% of pages are devoted to gender and feminist issues and that ‘gender’ and ‘women’ are often framed in narro ... more

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Strengthening Gender Sensitive Practices and Programming in Community Radio
Key Guidance

Kanchan K. Malik, Vinod Pavarala

Hyderabad: University of Hyderabad UNESCO Chair on Community Media (2021), 98 pp.

"[This publication] is a manual aimed at enhancing women’s participation and reducing gender inequalities in all aspects of the operations of community radio stations in India. This gender-sensitivity manual is an outcome of a project granted by the International Programme for Development of Commu ... more

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The Chilling: Global Trends in Online Violence Against Women Journalists. Research Discussion Paper
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Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, Nermine Aboulez

UNESCO (2021), 94 pp.

"Online attacks on women journalists appear to be increasing significantly, as this study demonstrates, particularly in the context of the ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women during COVID-19. The pandemic has changed journalists’ working conditions, making them yet more dependent on di ... more

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Gender, Equality and Diversity Chapter

SembraMedia; Asociación Civil Comunicación para la Igualdad (2021), 58 pp.

"[...] this kit includes a “Guide of Principles” destined to accompany the process of inclusion of discrimination and sexism-free content in the labor practices of the organizations; a Content Guide, whose objective is to guide the production of content along the same lines; and a “Protocol of ... more

Who Makes the News? 6th Global Media Monitoring Project Top Insights

Feminist and Gender Perspectives in Literature on Media & Development Top Insights

Strengthening Gender Sensitive Practices and Programming in Community Radio Key Guidance

The Chilling: Global Trends in Online Violence Against Women Journalists. Research Discussion Paper Top Insights

Who Makes the News? 6th Global Media Monitoring Project
Top Insights

Feminist and Gender Perspectives in Literature on Media & Development
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Strengthening Gender Sensitive Practices and Programming in Community Radio
Key Guidance

The Chilling: Global Trends in Online Violence Against Women Journalists. Research Discussion Paper
Top Insights