{"id":11293,"date":"2022-06-21T13:15:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/?p=11293"},"modified":"2022-06-21T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:16:46","slug":"dominican-republic-gender-equality-in-the-news-remains-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/dominican-republic-gender-equality-in-the-news-remains-elusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic: Gender equality in the news remains elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Women continued to be a “significant minority” compared to men who were seen, heard, or written about in Dominican Republic news media, according to the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), which took a snapshot of the day’s news in September 2020.<\/p>\n

Women accounted for only 26% of news, a slight decrease from 27% in the previous GMMP in 2015, said the GMMP-Dominican Republic report<\/a> prepared by El Espacio de Comunicaci\u00f3n Insular (ESPACINSULAR), a local NGO which coordinated the GMMP in the country.<\/p>\n

A comparison across mediums indicated that women are most visible in news media Tweets (44%), followed by television (42%). None of the radio news bulletins featured women as subjects or sources, while in print, women were one out of five persons written about or interviewed.<\/p>\n

Women were least likely to appear in news about politics and government (just 3% in traditional media, and 14% in online news and Twitter).<\/p>\n

There were no women represented as academic experts, health professionals and law enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n

In terms of images in the news, 29% of women and 35% of men appeared in photographs accompanying the stories,<\/p>\n

The results clearly show “the need to implement and increase advocacy actions that contribute to improving the representation and portrayal of women and girls in the news,” said the report.<\/p>\n

The report proposed a five-year plan that includes a wide dissemination of the GMMP results to media and women’s organizations, media leaders, government institutions and journalism schools and universities. It also proposed a training project on Communication and Gender that will involve workshops for journalists and news outlets, the creation of a Media Observatory, and a Working Group on Communication and Gender to work with journalists and journalism professors and carry out semi-annual or annual media monitoring.<\/p>\n

The report also revealed the following:<\/p>\n

* Women accounted for 65% of reporters in monitored newspapers<\/p>\n

* Men accounted for 100% of radio reporters and presenters<\/p>\n

* Women accounted for 70% of television presenters<\/p>\n

* Migrant women accounted for only 2.2% of persons seen, heard, or written about (4 out of 157 news items)<\/p>\n

* Most women reporters were assigned to social and legal news (26%), the economy (22%), science and health (22%), and other topics (11%). Only 11% of female reporters wrote about politics and government.<\/p>\n

This is the third time that the Dominican Republic via ESPACINSULAR participated in the GMMP, an initiative coordinated by WACC Global every five years since 1995.<\/p>\n

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