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UN Women supports media monitoring studies on how women are depicted in the media. For instance, the organization engage media professionals by raising awareness of gender equality and violence against women, including through special workshops and tool-kits, to encourage gender-sensitive reporting." [129]
The ‘End News Media Sexism’ campaign encourages and supports advocacy initiatives that promote changes in media policies and journalism practice. The campaign is taking a multi-disciplinary approach and uses a variety of different tools to promote awareness, including a gender scorecard against which media organizations are measured.
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the largest international study of gender in the news media and falls under the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC). It is also an advocacy organization that aims to change the representation of women in the news media.
The same year, the organization released the Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient video and sound recognition software with algorithms that identify the gender and screentime of characters in media. [10] While examining films released in 2014 and 2015, the software found male characters were present on screen approximately twice as often as female ...
Gender sensitivity is the process by which people are made aware of how gender plays a role in life through their treatment of others. [1] Gender relations are present in all institutions worldwide and gender sensitivity especially manifests in recognizing privilege and discrimination around gender; women are generally seen as disadvantaged in society.
Media representation, culture industry, and social marginalization all hint at popular culture standards and the applicability and significance to mass culture, even though media depictions represent only a minuscule spectrum of the transgender group, [1] which essentially conveys that those that are shown are the only interpretations and ideas ...
Gender sensitization is the process teaching of gender sensitivity and encouragement of behavior modification through raising awareness of gender equality concerns. [1] In other words, it is the process of making people aware of gender equality or the lack of to the need to eliminate gender discrimination .
The media is involved in the daily life of many women, especially younger women. This has influence on their body image and behaviour. UNICEF states, "women and girls are repeatedly objectified and their bodies hyper sexualized, the media contributes to harmful gender stereotypes that often trivialize violence against girls. [1]" Due to social ...