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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
London: Vintage (2020), xv, 411 pp.
"Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible
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"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
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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
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Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP): Impact Assessment Survey Report
Lagos: Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ); Free Press Unlimited (2020), 14 pp.
"Findings from the survey revealed that the Report Women FRLP has achieved its goal exceptionally. It equipped the fellows with knowledge and capability for leadership with evidence of increased visibility for the fellows as leaders in their newsrooms. It opened opportunities for personal and profes
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The Digital Exclusion of Women with Disabilities: A Study of Seven Low- and Middle-Income Countries
London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.
"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga
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Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook
Key Guides
UNFPA Arab States Regional Humanitarian Response Hub, 2nd ed. (2020), 35 pp.
"By not adhering to rigid standards of professionalism, journalists can unwittingly become part of the problem, causing further trauma to survivors and allowing perpetrators to evade prosecution [...] This handbook was developed to help journalists report on gender-based violence (GBV) with greater
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Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World
Albany: State University of New York Press (2020), xiv, 152 pp.
"Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women's social movements as well as female figures and online communities emerged to create positive change and demand equality with men. In Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World author Ahmed Al-Rawi discusses and maps out n
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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.
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The Contribution of Citizen Views to Understanding Women’s Empowerment as a Process of Change: The Case of Niger
Feminist Media Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2020), pp. 713-729
"This article investigates citizen’s views on women’s empowerment as a process of change in Niger, the lowest country on the Human Development Index where women suffer widespread gender inequality. It draws on semi-structured interviews with radio and civil society organisation (CSO) representat
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Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide
Key Guides
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.
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Radio Journalism and Women's Empowerment in Niger
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
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Media and Social Representations of Otherness: Psycho-Social-Cultural Implications
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
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"On this site, you will navigate through a diverse selection of fabulous journalism produced by IMS partners worldwide during the years 2015-2020. With affection, sharpness, passion, challenge, and – sometimes – satire, these entries address the violations and resistance that occur as consequenc
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Contemporary Women Filmmakers in Myanmar: Reflections on a Visit in February 2019
Bioscope, volume 11, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-91
"Existing accounts of Myanmar’s film industry available to English speakers are more than twenty years out of date. Opening with a brief overview of cinema in Myanmar since 2000, this article is based on a recent visit to the Myanmar Motion Picture Development Department and the Yangon Film School
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Risk perception and negotiation of safety among Ugandan female journalists covering political demonstrations
"Safety of female journalists in and beyond the newsroom continues to stimulate debate on how risky environments can trigger self-censorship among journalists, yet few studies have investigated women journalists’ experience of risk in specific work contexts. This chapter examines the perception of
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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Glossary from a to Z
Paris: FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights (2020), 213 pp.
"Based on our engagement with multiple stakeholders involved in the movement to eliminate sexual and gender-based violence, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) decided to develop this Glossary to identify and clarify key definitions that practitioners should, at a minimum, be well a
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Barriers to Women Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kalmar (SE): Fojo Media Institute (2020), 59 pp.
Latinx Feminist Activism for the Safety of Women Journalists
"Gender-based violence against women journalists has increased dramatically, both offline and online. These professionals face more barriers to performing their roles in safe conditions. Slow progress has been made by governments and news media industries to protect women journalists. Most of the pr
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Gazing Past the Glass Ceiling: Indian and South African Female Journalists’ Perceptions of Their Role and Power in the Newsroom
Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 57-74
"This article analyses female journalists’ perceptions of their own role, their power in the newsroom, their influence over the news agenda and the challenges they face on a daily basis in two large media-saturated countries and emerging democracies, India and South Africa. India and South Africa
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You Really Have to Have a Thick Skin’: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on How Online Harassment Influences Female Journalists
Journalism, volume 21, issue 7 (2020), pp. 877-895
"In-depth interviews with 75 female journalists who work or have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America reveal that they face rampant online gendered harassment that influences how they do their jobs. Many of the women report that if they aim to engage
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