Under the theme "Towards Gender Sensitive Indicators for Media: Best Practices for Gender Perspective in Media and in Media Content", WMN 2010 is intended to initiate a global exchange on the importance and the need for gender sensitive indicators for media organizations.
It also seeks to address the equality and gender dimensions of social diversity in the media.
The opening session was also the occasion to launch the Chinese translation of the Gender-Sensitive Indicators for Media (GSIM) and of the handbook Getting the Balance Right: Gender Equality in Journalism.
Within the framework of UNESCO's contribution to the promotion of community participation in sustainable development through community media and the UN Gender and Development Programme entitled "Setting things right towards gender equality and equity", the awareness and capacity for protecting the rights of women and girls will be increased through community media.
The assessment focused on the gender perspective of community media in Namibia and spotlighted the status of governance structures, women media practitioners and content related to female audiences.
On a recent morning, Mr. Leon was teaching his 12th-graders a class about gender roles in the media and society.
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It's long past the time to close the gender gap in our nation's leadership and in the media and telecom industries' leadership especially, where in 2011 only 28.4% of TV news directors were women, according to the Women's Media Center's 2012 Status of Women in the U.S. Media report.
The relevance of sustained training, the promotion of women's leadership and a gender-sensitive work environment, the establishment of well defined, monitored and evaluated gender policies and programmes in media houses, journalist unions and professional associations were also stressed, along with fostering a portrayal of women by the media that avoids stereotyping.
While inequalities and gender stereotypes exist in social structures and in the minds of people, media have the potential to propagate and perpetuate or to ameliorate these.
Speaking at the project's workshop, Professor Liu Liqun, Director of the Media and Gender Institute and UNESCO Media and Gender Chair holder, highlighted that in her analysis three major gender-based inequalities appear in mass media.
The GSIM tool also informs training needs as it contains all the salient elements of gender and media.
The two-day workshop included sessions and case sharing on women and the media from an occupational perspective, and on professionally producing gender-balanced and gender-sensitive news and contents.
As transgender and gender-nonconforming children and teens become more visible, both in communities and in the media, parents are less likely to dismiss them.
They will contribute to inform UNESCO's decision to support the development of gender sensitive indicators to be used by media organizations and civil society and will be featured on the Women Make the News 2010 website.
The purpose of this GSIM tool is to facilitate gender equality and women empowerment in and through media of all forms, irrespective of the technology used.
These are some of the findings of Southern African Gender and Media Baseline Study.
Although policy frameworks and strategic targets for the enhancement of women's careers in media have been shown to produce positive results in a number of settings, the increasingly global and commercial structures of media institutions do not sit easily with the adoption of gender sensitive measures.
Deliberate measures were said to be needed at the policy level but also in global businesses, decision-making and the media in order to enhance gender parity.
In her address, Ms Bokova said that she considered the event a key step towards the Global Forum on Media and Gender that will be organized by UNESCO and UN Women in 2013.
Not necessarily, said Rebecca Zorach, director of the Social Media Project at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Marketing messages can be tailored to very precise groups of people, based on their age, gender and the interests and affiliations they have expressed through interaction with social media.
By doing this, it became a potential agent of positive change for the purposes of confronting historic media imbalances and commonly accepted gender prejudices.
We are focusing in now on the importance of January 26th, and I believe that women are deciding based on what the issues are and what's important to them and what they want their children to see, and race and gender have become secondary, in my opinion, in spite of what the media wants us to believe.
Please share your thoughts on some priority elements you think should be considered to measure how responsive the media are to gender issues in all aspects of their operations, and why you think these elements should be prioritized.
So are projects for the development of science and technology in Africa as well as those to promote gender equality, especially in the field of media.
Therefore, she stressed, raising the awareness and knowledge of media professionals as well as the public at large was key to tackling such gender-based inequalities.
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