Change is the goal

I met Barbara Kaija in the elevator last night. She is the Editor in Chief of New Vision in Uganda and one of more than 70 women media leaders who meet in Washington DC this week to create a Plan of Action for Change. On a global scale there are still large inequalities when it come to gender, that goes for news rooms too.

Tomorrow we will now a lot more about the situation when the report ”The Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media” will be unveiled. It is a mapping about 60 countries and 500 newsrooms in areas such as:

Salaries and Positions

Terms and Employment

Reporting Assignments

Recruiting and Hiring

Career Advancement

Journalism- Related Gender Policies and Goals.

I have been the regional coordinator for Nordic Europe and so far I have only seen the Nordic results so I am really curious to get the whole picture. The study has been conducted for International Women’s Media Foundation, IWMF who celebrates their 20^th anniversary with this conference.