Articles about International Womens Media Foundation Organization
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Voices of women in newsrooms and rural Africa
08 July 11
The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is transforming the reporting of agriculture and rural development by giving voice to rural women farmers. With support from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the IWMF has launched the Reporting on Women and Agriculture: Africa (RWA) programme. RWA aims to help... [read more]
Opportunities: Scholarships for New Media Women Entrepreneurs in India
08 July 11
The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is offering an opportunity for two women entrepreneurs in the new media sector to join an upcoming class of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women in India. Through 10,000 Women, participants receive a world class education focused on helping entrepreneurs to think big and grow... [read more]
Editor's Note
01 June 11 | (1) Comment
Gender and media freedom seminars will be held in ten Southern Africa countries over the coming weeks, kicking off with a Facebook and Twitter social networking campaign titled What has gender got to do with media freedom? The seminars will contribute to a draft Addendum to the Windhoek Declaration on Gender and the... [read more]
Getting it right: Gender indicators for newsrooms and news content
06 May 11
The recent International Women's Media Foundation Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media has found that women are underrepresented or misrepresented in global newsrooms, from Lithuania to Lesotho. Other studies, including the Gender Links Gender and Media Progress Study and Glass Ceilings research have... [read more]
IWMF launches the global glass ceiling report
06 May 11
A groundbreaking report on media houses in more than 500 countries has found that almost three quarters of top media jobs are held by men.
The Global Report on the Status Women in the News Media, produced by the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) looked at newsrooms in 60 countries, finding that men... [read more]
GL@10: Gender links across the oceans
25 March 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The research and advocacy work of Gender Links came to my attention about seven or eight years ago when the group published its early studies on women’s employment in news companies in Southern Africa. What impressed me was the clear-headedness with which the work seemed to be carried out. The research asked... [read more]
Gender Linked, Issue 11, October 2010
11 November 10 | (1) Comment
This is my first edition as the editor of Gender Linked, taking over from Mukayi. It's exciting yet challenging to be gender-linked and keeping you connected within the GL family! I had to borrow the quote from my hero Nelson Mandela. I think GL has good leadership - good head, good staff and good heart - with this... [read more]
Glass Ceiling report: Lesotho
07 August 09
Regional relevance: Lesotho
This audit of women and men in Lesotho media houses is part of the Glass Ceilings: Women and Men in Southern African Media report, conducted by Gender Links (GL) in partnership with the Gender and Media Southern African (GEMSA) network in Lesotho. [read more]
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