Read my expert comments ...

When EIGE, the European Institute for Gender Equality, worked on their report   Advancing gender equality in decision-making in media organisations they asked me about why it is important to get women involved in media-related education and careers, why there are still so few many women in the news and what can be done about it.
This is what I answered:
What about gender in the media? Interviews with women experts.

The report, fact sheets and the interview  as well as the other Beijing follow up report can be found here.

IAMCR 2013 Dublin

Women Journalists  and Media structures in Time of Crisis. That is the name of the Panel in the Gender & Communication section on Friday, 16 pm, at  the IAMCR conference. There will be a fantastic group of researchers presenting data from the IWMF-study and the research that they have done from all over the world, ther researchers are representing Mexico, Kenya, Estonia, Brazil, Chile, South  Africa and many more. I my self am very much looking forward to meet these people IRL since we all share the experiece of writing about our country for the Palgrave-book ( see earlier blogpost.)

Again we have our editor, Carolyn Byerly to thank for this opportunity.

The Palgrave International Handbook on Women and Journalism on its way!

Carolyn M. Byerly who was the principal investigator of the IWMF study is also the editor of a volume from Palgrave Macmillan  where scholars from all over the world are contextualizing the data from Global Report on the Status of Women in The News Media

The book will be an important contribution to the global discussion about women and the media. 

There are contributions from all regions included in the book. From the Nordic countries there are chapters about Finland, Norway and Sweden are included in the book. Henrika Zilliacus Tikkanen and Tarja Savolainen wrote about the Finnish situation, Turid Øvrebø wrote about Norway and I contributed with a chapter on Sweden.

The Palgrave International Handbook on Women and Journalism will materialize as a book in autumn 2013.

Nordic Perspectives
Time for some updates. 
Since the Zagreb conference on Women and Media the fabulus Viktorija Car edited a great volume of Media Studies/Medijske studije where all the keynote speakers contributed. It is all open access, My article has the title  'Is There a Nordic Way?: A Swedish Perspective on Achievements and Problems with Gender Equality in Newsrooms .
The whole volume can be found here: 

Swedish editors - Start signing!

News media leaders all over the world are signing the IWMF Declaration of Principles on Equity in the News Media. Still waiting for the first Swedish editor to sign.

We did an open call for it on May 7th in Stockholm, maybe it is time for a direct call.