GMMP2020 and why gender & media research is important - a podcast with me

The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is a worldwide media monitoring, research and advocacy project that takes ever five years produce a snapshot of the gender equality status in the news media around the world. Helsinki university is promoting the project by creating a website where they collect the Finnish work and provide more in-depth info. They have also produced interviews with four GMMP experts, all made by Yann Ilunga.  I am honoured to be one of the interviewees, named as "one of the key Nordic scholars of gender and the media". The other three interviews are with Philip Lee, Sarah Macharia, Claudia Padovani

You can find the interviews here:

Associate Professor Claudia Padovani, University of Padova – a seminar scholar in gender studies, with a specialization in gender and policy and involvement in many related global activities, such as the UNESCO Unitwin University Network on Gender Media and ICTs and the AGEMI project;
* General Secretary Dr. Philip Lee, WACC, on the history of GMMP; and
* Dr. Sarah Macharia – the Global Coordinator of the GMMP research project on the current developments. 

Of course i promoted the books Comparing gender and media across the globe, and Making Change. Nordic Examples of Working Towards Gender Equality in the Media (in advertising, film, gaming and journalism) both free to download though Nordicom.

In a time of cancellations

As you might have understood, the seminar in conjunction with CSW64 in March

was cancelled since the whole event was cancelled.
It is quite difficult to grasp all the effects of Covid-19, but clearly the Beijing+25 evaluations and the possibilities to advance the agenda is put on hold.
However, we keep on finalizing  the international research project Comparing gender and media equality across the globe and hope to soon present the book, the open data-set and a simple to use index for gender equality in the news media, GEM-I. Keep you posted! 
Here is the programme for the cancelled event:Programme GEM-seminar March 12 2020, NGO-CSW64
 

Media is a male business

Last week Nordicom published a fact sheet that was quite revealing. The 100 largest media corporations are so lagging behind when it comes to gender equality on the top levels. Thirty corporations have no women whatsoever in their top management.

We wanted to publish these statistics in good time before CSW62, the UN Commisson on the Status of Women March 12-23.
Only 15 percent of all UN member states are collecting sex-disaggregated data on the media, so how will we ever know if there is progress or not?

This year the CSW Priority theme is challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls. The the review theme is participation in and access of women to the media, and information and communications technologies and their impact on and use as an instrument for the advancement and empowerment of women.
I will participate as a member of the official Swedish delegation from March 11-16, maybe I will meet some of you there?

Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe

What if we could compile global, comparable sex-disaggregated data on the news media and make it into an open database?

That is exactly what we are working on in a research project at the University of Gothenburg.

Thanks to the Swedish Research Council and professor Monika Djerf-Pierre this data base is about to come true. In the project Comparing Gender and Media Equality Across the Globe we have collected data from the IWMF-study, The Global media Monitoring Project reports and the EIGE-study on the media sector and combined it with other global statistics.  We are now in the phase of running the data, making quality checks and doing first analysis of the material. The picture is from our second project meeting in October 2018, gathering in the front row: Sarah Macharia, WACC, Karen Ross, University of Newcastle, Claudia Padovani, University of Padova and in the back row Monika Djerf Pierre, Maria Edström and Mathias Färdigh. 

here is an article about the project from our first meeting.

In 2019 the GEM data base will be open for anyone to use.Then we will also launch our book, published by Nordicom. Keep you posted.

Time to Step Up

On the global debate about gender equality in the media there is often a demand for regional discussions. I am privileged to be part of such a project, Nordic Gender & Media Forum, organized by Nordicom at the University of Gothenburg.

During 2014 there will be a number of activities where of course the work of IWMF will be an important part of the discussion.

Here is the book!

We are many happy co-authors that just recieved this book in the post. It feels so good.
Standing ovations to Carolyn M Byerly for the work that she has done as an editor.

My engagement in this project started in Johannesburg already in 2008, at the Gender Summit organized by Gender Links.At the summit Carolyn M Byerly announced that IWMF were looking for regional coordinators. Five years later the book is here! 

The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

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Gender & media panel at Nordmedia 2013

Every second year there is a Nordic media researchers conference; Nordmedia. This year it takes place in Oslo, Norway Aug 8-10. We are having a panel, The Uncomfortable Gender Gap in The Nordic News Media, based on new research in combination with the chapters that we wrote for the coming Palgrave International Handbook on Women and Journalism.
Hopefully there will be a good discussion. Tarja Savolainen, University of Helsinki will talk about the EIGE report that investigates the gender equality in the media organisations in all the EU member states. Turid Øvrebø, Volda college, will talk about her new research from Dagsrevyn, NRK and I will discuss the possible implications of recent political documents from the EU and the Council of Europe regarding Gender and the Media.