WUNRN
LATIN AMERICA
GENDER & MEDIA - RESEARCH - REALITIES - ADVOCACY WORKSHOP
The World Association for Christian
Communication (WACC) in partnership with Grupo de apoyo al movimiento de mujeres del Azuay
(GAMMA) held a 3-day training workshop on
gender and media advocacy from 15 to 17 July, 2008 in Quito, Ecuador.
Representatives from women’s non-governmental organisations and other civil
society organisations from 17 Latin American countries attended.
The workshop is a follow-up to the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)
2005, the most extensive global research into gender in the media ever
undertaken that mapped the representation of women and men in the news media in
76 countries. (URL: www.whomakesthenews.org).
Analysis of the media monitoring findings from 11 countries in the Latin
America region revealed that only 23% of the people in the news are women
despite having a population that is at least 50% female. Women are not equally
represented within media houses, they are barely present in management
positions and in editorial spaces. As confirmed by the results of the GMMP, the
depiction of women in the news is degrading and stereotypical. Additional
sources assert that across the Latin America region, gender policies for media
are inexistent and the legal frameworks in general do not encourage the
enactment of such policies.
The workshop provided an opportunity for groups working on gender and
media issues in the region to network and share their experiences with a view
to collectively develop advocacy campaigns. Participants elaborated a plan for
gender and media advocacy which includes, as a priority action, the replication
of the GAMMA-WACC initiative ‘Citizens Communication Observatory’ beyond
Ecuador into other countries in the Spanish-speaking Latin America and
Caribbean region.
For more information, please send an email to gamma@gammaecuador.org or sm@waccglobal.org.
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