Women constitute 52% of the world's population yet make up only 21% of people featured in the news. Women are most underrepresented in radio where they are only 17% of news subjects compared with 22% on television and 21% in newspapers. This is the major finding of a global study on gender issues in news media conducted by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) in 2005. The data suggest that very little has changed since WACC's 1995 and 2000 studies. The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2005 shows that the marginalisation of women in news media is still very much a reality. The release of the report in London on 15 February 2006 will be followed by three weeks of Global Action on Gender and Media (through blog discussions, workshops, polls, surveys, debates, comments, etc). . . . .
WACC and its partners worldwide join with UNESCO in offering a challenge to all media producing daily news to give editorial responsibility to women editors and journalists to direct the news on 8 March 2006 - International Women's Day. . . . . http://www.thehoot.org/story.asp?storyid=Web59176933Hoot31900%20PM1974&pn=1 -- Anivar Aravind GAIA -- The great moral question of the twenty-first century is: If all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information, can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone -- if everyone can have everything, everywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone from anything? - Eben Moglen
