International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Each year, this day serves as a reminder of the progress made towards gender equality and highlights the work that still needs to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For International Women\u2019s Day 2024 we are encouraged to imagine<\/a> \u201ca world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n This year’s campaign calls for action<\/a> to \u201cbreak down barriers, challenge stereotypes, and create environments where all women are valued and respected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The space for inclusion in the news media industry is vast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Media monitoring evidence<\/a> reveals that the probability for underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women across the range of news-making roles increases exponentially when they are indigenous, racial or ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities and\/or refugees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In Latin America for example, only 3% of the people in the news are from Indigenous or tribal groups and of these only one in five is a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe failure to extend the opportunity for more citizens to tell their own stories in their own words, to tell the stories which are important to them and, also, to a broad range of people, compromises the value of the news to its multiple and diverse publics,\u201d notes the 6th GMMP Final Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The global communication rights organization WACC<\/a> calls its members, partners, and networks to take action to champion the substantive inclusion of diverse women in news media organisations, in media leadership and decision-making positions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We call for advocacy to drive fair and balanced inclusion of women from all backgrounds in media content, free of gender stereotypes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo: Sara\u00ed Cristina, 15, produces a program for an Indigenous community radio station in Honduras. “I like talking about issues that affect young people and women, about the systems that keep us poor and how to confront them.” (c) Sean Hawkey\/Life on Earth<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n WACC stands for the World Association for Christian Communication, an international organization that promotes communication as a basic human right, essential to the dignity of women and men. It advocates full access to information and communication, and promotes open and diverse media. WACC coordinates the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP),<\/a> which every 5 years since 1995 has taken the pulse of gender equality and women\u2019s rights in the world news media. The GMMP is made possible by the volunteer participation of civil society groups, associations of concerned media professionals and academic researchers around the world.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Each year, this day serves as a reminder of the progress made towards gender equality and highlights the work that still needs to be done. For International Women\u2019s…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,160],"tags":[70,187,72,71,188],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-news","tag-gender-disparity-in-media","tag-journalism","tag-portrayal-of-women-in-media","tag-women-in-media","tag-women-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12038,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions\/12038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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