por Maximiliano Dueñas Guzmán, coordinador del GMMP en la région Caribé

“Debemos crear medios de comunicación que alientan al diálogo y al debate: medios que favorezcan a las mujeres y la creatividad popular: medios que reafirmen la sabiduría y los conocimientos de las mujeres y que hagan de las personas sujetos y no objetos o blancos de los medios”. Esta es una de las afirmaciones del Encuentro de Bangkok (Tailandia) 1994, tal vez una de las reuniones mundiales más célebres entre las personas que promueven la democratización de la comunicación. Fue en ese encuentro, que reunió más de 400 personas de 80 países, que se propuso la creación de un Proyecto Mundial de Monitoreo de Medios (GMMP por sus siglas en inglés) para documentar la representación de la mujer en los medios de comunicación. En los inicios del 1995, se escogió el 18 de enero para realizar el primer monitoreo mundial de medios. Los resultados de ese estudio influyeron la Cuarta Conferencia Mundial sobre la Mujer, actividad de la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) celebrada en Beijing en 1995, ya que ahí se logró la aprobación de dos objetivos relacionados con la mujer y los medios de comunicación: el aumento en el acceso y participación de la mujer en los medios, y, segundo, la promoción de una representación no estereotipada de la mujer en los medios de comunicación.

Leer más:  http://www.80grados.net/2012/03/la-construccion-noticiosa-de-la-mujer/

Apparently, not in the news media.

An article by E. J. Graff, published in American Prospect online magazine on 29 February 2012.

"...the news purports to be objective, to tell it like it is. The media help create our image of the world, our internal picture of what’s normal and true. And when the news is being written by men about men, a significant part of reality is missing from view."

Read more here

from The Guardian UK online newspaper.

Article title: "Leveson inquiry must address sexist media stereotypes, say women's groups", published 24 January 2012

""The media creates, reflects and enforces attitudes in society. Those who work in the media should be conscious of this and should actively seek not to reproduce attitudes which condone violence against women or girls," said Marai Larasi from End Violence Against Women, a coalition of 40 women's organisations.

Representatives of the women's groups Equality Now, Eaves, Object and End Violence Against Women called on Lord Justice Leveson to ban highly sexualised images in newspapers, which they argued would not be broadcast pre-watershed on television."

Read full article here.

Published in The Guardian (online) on 25 January 2012.    

"The broadcasting minister, Ed Vaizey, has undertaken to set up a meeting between Nadine Dorries and BBC director general Mark Thompson to discuss the under-representation of women at the corporation, both on and off air".

Read more: 

BBC sexism allegations: Ed Vaizey to broker meeting with director general, by Jason Deans and Tara Conlan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jan/25/bbc-sexism-allegations-ed-vaizey

"In a typical month,78% of newspaper articles are written by men, 72% of Question Time contributors are men and 84% of reporters and guests on Radio 4's Today show are men. Where are all the women?"

Read Kira Cochrane's article published in the December 4 2011 issue of the Guardian online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/04/why-british-public-life-dominated-men.

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Although women have made great strides in Asia, there are still many areas in which they lag far behind, most notably in political participation." http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/10/27/focus/7284702&sec=focus

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