Join us for a presentation on 9/13, 9-11:00 a.m.: The Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media

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The Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy

and the International Women's Media Foundation invite you to a presentation of  

 

The Global Report on the Status of
Women in the News Media 

Featuring: 

 

 Carolyn M. Byerly

Report Author

 

Shirley M. Carswell

 The Washington Post

  

 Liza Gross

 International Women's Media Foundation

 

Moderated by:

 

 Suzanne Garment 

 CIMA Advisory Council

  

 Tuesday, September 13, 2011

 9-11:00 a.m.

(Light refreshments served)

 

1025 F Street, NW, Suite 800

Washington, D.C. 20004

 

 

 

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Join us for a presentation of The Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, by the International Women's Media Foundation. The free flow of information is an essential ingredient of open and democratic societies, and this includes an equal voice for women in the gathering and dissemination of news. Based on interviews with 500 companies in almost 60 countries around the world, the report explores the role of women in determining and shaping the news agenda. It examines whether media companies are currently organized to promote gender equity within their organizations or to accommodate women's voices as well as men's perspectives in coverage. The discussion will feature the report's research and findings, conducted over a two-year period, on women's status globally in news media ownership, publishing, editing, and production, among other media jobs. Panelists will comment on the study and offer their perspectives on gender barriers in the news business.

 

About the speakers:

 

Carolyn M. Byerly is professor in the department of journalism and a member of the mass communications and media studies graduate faculty at Howard University's School of Communications.  She teaches research methods, communications theory, feminism and media, development communication and political communication.  Her research includes the relationship of women, racial, and sexual minorities to the news media, including a study on reshaping the Federal Communications Commission policy to expand media ownership by women and people of color.  Byerly earned her doctorate and master's degree from the University of Washington and her bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado Boulder.  Before entering academic life, she worked as a journalist, government public information officer, and director of non-profit organizations.  She is the co-author of Women and Media: A Critical Introduction and the co-editor of Women and Media: International Perspectives, among other works.

 

Shirley M. Carswell is a professional journalist and manager with more than 20 years of experience in one of the nation's leading newsrooms. As deputy managing editor of the Washington Post since 2009, she is a member of the senior leadership team that sets coverage and staffing priorities for the newspaper and website. In addition to managing the budget, daily operations, and news personnel, Carswell oversees special events planning and projects, such as a recent newsroom redesign and renovation. She worked as an editor at newspapers in Richmond, VA, and Pontiac and Detroit, MI, before moving to the Washington Post in 1988 to join the Metro copy desk. She became the Post's assistant managing editor (AME) for planning and administration, with responsibilities including the newsroom's multimillion-dollar operating budget and its information technology and administrative support staffs. At the time, she was the youngest person ever promoted to the AME level at the Post and the first African-American woman. Carswell earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Howard University, and is a graduate of the Dow-Jones Newspaper Fund editing program and the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University's Media Management Center. She is a member of the American Society of News Editors and the National Association of Black Journalists. Carswell was a 2004 McCormick Tribune Fellow.

 

Liza Gross is the executive director of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). Before assuming her position at the IWMF, Gross was managing editor/presentation and operations for the Miami Herald, where she was responsible for the newspaper's visual appearance, daily production, and weekend news sections. Gross, who has almost 30 years of experience in journalism and communications, is a former executive managing editor of El Nuevo Día, the largest circulation daily newspaper in Puerto Rico, and a former publisher of Éxito, the Spanish-language daily of the Chicago Tribune. A native of Argentina, Gross was an instructor and editor for the Latin American Journalism Program, an educational initiative of Florida International University in Miami. She also served as a reporter and editor on the Latin America desk of the Associated Press in New York City, managing editor of Hispanic magazine, and executive editor of Times of the Americas, a Washington-based bimonthly covering Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

About the moderator:

 

Suzanne Garment is counsel and consultant to non-profit organizations and a visiting scholar at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, where she is writing, with Leslie Lenkowsky, a book on the politics of American philanthropy. She served as special counsel to New York Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch and is currently counsel to the Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, co-chaired by Ravitch and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. Prior to her practice of law, she was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She was also associate editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, where she wrote the weekly column "Capital Chronicle." Garment served as special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Daniel P. Moynihan. She has taught politics and public policy at Harvard University and Yale University. Garment is the author of Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics and Decision to Prosecute: Organization and Public Policy in the U.S. Antitrust Division, as well as numerous articles, op-ed pieces, and reviews. She earned a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College, a master's degree from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, a doctorate in political science from Harvard University, and juris doctorate and master of laws' degrees in taxation from Georgetown University Law Center.

 

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The Center for International Media Assistance, an initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy, brings together a broad range of media experts with the goal of strengthening the support for and improving the effectiveness of media assistance programs by providing information, building networks, and conducting research on the indispensable role independent media play in creating sustainable democracies around the world.

 

The International Women's Media Foundation, founded in 1990, is a vibrant global network dedicated to strengthening the role of women in the news media worldwide as a means to further freedom of the press. The IWMF network includes women and men in the media in more than 130 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.iwmf.org

 

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Women in the Middle East: Attitudes and Advocacy in an Opening Political Space

Women in the Middle East: Attitudes and Advocacy in an Opening Political Space

Gender Issues

August 12, 2011 to August 12, 2011 - IFES

The United States of America, MENA

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Women wait outside a women's polling station in Beirut during Lebanon's 2009 parliamentary elections. John D. Lawrence/IFES

EVENT INFORMATION

When: 
Friday, August 12, 2011 
9:45 a.m. — 11:45 a.m.

 

Where: 
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place NW
Washington, DC 20001
USA 

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Rola Abdul-Latif, IFES Senior Research Specialist, and Vasu Mohan, IFES Deputy Director for Europe and Asia, will present at a workshop on women in the Middle East during InterAction’s 2011 Forum.

Abdul-Latif will present data, captured through IFES’ Status of Women in the Middle East project, on where women in Yemen, Morocco and Lebanon stand politically, economically and socially.

Mohan will act as moderator and provide information on IFES’ gender programming.

Abdul-Latif and Mohan will be joined on the panel by:

Carla Koppell, Senior Coordinator, Office of Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment, USAID

Wameedh Shakir, Founder and Board Member of WATAN Coalition (The Yemeni Women for for Social Peace Campaign); Gender and Development Consultant

For more information, please visit:  http://www.interaction.org/

Allison Strype

Civil Society

IREX

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Phone: 202-628-8188  x. 127

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Gender Salon #3: Women's Roles in Rebuilding Societies

When: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:00 PM-1:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
Where: Board Room

Note: The GMT offset above does not reflect daylight saving time adjustments.

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Dear All,

Please join us on Wednesday, August 24th at noon in the Board Room as we discuss “Women’s Roles in Rebuilding Societies,” post-conflict, amidst revolutions, pre-elections, and everything in between.

In preparation for the conversation, please take a few minutes to view Zainab Salbi’s talk on women, wartime, and the dream of peace (here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/zainab_salbi.html). Consider the following excerpt from the video and think about examples we’ve seen that support/contradict this viewpoint:

“I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly -- though not exclusively -- who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included at the negotiating table.”

In addition to the video, attached please find two articles on women and the Arab Spring. During the salon we hope to flesh out the differences between women’s roles in peacebuilding in protracted conflict (e.g. Liberia) vs. women’s role in regime upheaval (Arab Spring). 

We look forward to a lively discussion.

Thank you,
Michelle

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Mumbai school program educates boys & girls on gender equality, shows promising results

Boys and Girls Becoming Equals

School-based ICRW Program in Mumbai Shows Promising Results

Wed, 08/03/2011

By Gillian Gaynair

Youth who participated in a two-year Mumbai schools program that promotes gender equality transformed their attitudes towards women’s and men’s roles in society and became less tolerant of gender discrimination, according to new findings from the Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) program, implemented by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Committee of Resource Organizations for Literacy (CORO) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

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Results show that over the course of the program, participating 12- to 14-year-old students grew more supportive of girls pursuing higher education and marrying later in life, and of boys and men contributing to household work. However, students’ behaviors and attitudes around reducing violence – a key component of GEMS – showed mixed results. 

Overall, the findings demonstrate that the program’s approach – which uses role playing, games, debates and candid discussions on serious topics – can be successful in India’s traditionally hierarchical school setting. And the evidence comes at a critical time, as girls continue to be devalued in Indian society and their presence dwindles: The 2011 census revealed 914 girls born to every 1,000 boys – a significant decline from 927 girls in the 2001 census and the lowest since India celebrated its independence in 1947.

“Schools are unquestionably one of the most critical settings to foster support for gender equality and increase the value of the girl child,” said Ravi Verma, director of ICRW’s Asia Regional Office in New Delhi. “We need to intentionally work against these gender stereotypes that are formally and informally reinforced within the Indian school settings. GEMS is an attempt in that direction.” 

Verma will be among several speakers at an Aug. 5 and 6 meeting in Mumbai, where educators, nongovernmental organizations and government officials – including Honorable Member of Parliament Smt. Supriya Sule – will discuss how to formally incorporate the GEMS methodology into the standard curriculum and teacher trainings in Maharashtra schools. ICRW experts also will share evidence emerging from its research on the program and students who participated in GEMS will talk about their experiences. 

How GEMS works

GEMS adopts an innovative approach in an unconventional setting to tackle some of India’s deeply-ingrained social norms. 

The program took place in 45 Mumbai public schools – 15 served as the control group – over two academic years. Essentially, GEMS champions equal relationships between girls and boys, dissects norms that define men's and women's roles in society, and addresses different forms of violence and how to intervene. GEMS students also learn how and why their bodies change during puberty as well as talk about what makes for healthy relationships. 

They are serious topics that are addressed with sixth- and seventh-graders, led by facilitators from CORO andTISS, ICRW’s partners on the program. The education activities were held during the school day for about 45 minutes. GEMS also included a school campaign – a week-long series of events that addressed the program’s major themes. All told, GEMS reached about 8,000 students in Mumbai. 

What the evidence shows

To help determine whether GEMS was making a difference, ICRW researchers developed a scale to measure students’ attitudes about gender equality as part of a questionnaire completed by students before and after the program. The scale included statements about gender roles, attributes and violence. For instance, youth were asked whether they agreed, disagreed or weren’t sure about statements such as: “Only men should work outside the home,” “Girls cannot do well in math and science” and “There are times when a woman deserves to be beaten.” 

After six months in the program, the proportion of boys and girls who had the highest gender equality scores more than doubled – a significantly greater increase than in the control group. 

Generally, boys and girls showed the greatest change in their attitude about the roles expected of and restrictions placed on women and men in society. For instance, a higher percentage of students disagreed with traditional notions that say only mothers can bathe or feed children, and that men need more care because they work harder than women. Meanwhile, over the course of the GEMS program, a significant number of students who participated in group activities and the school campaigns consistently supported the idea that girls should wait to get married. At first, most students said that girls should be at least 18 years old; over time, that increased to 21. 

“In several sessions, facilitators discussed the issue of gender discrimination, girls’ value in society and how both affect girls’ growth and development,” said Pranita Achyut, ICRW poverty, gender and HIV/AIDS specialist who oversees the GEMS program. “The findings reveal that classroom discussions helped students think about and question social norms. Facilitators also encouraged them to challenge stereotypical ideas about men and women. Those interactions clearly moved students to look at their world differently.” 

GEMS activities around violence, however, yielded mixed results. 

Experts found that physical and emotional violence at school was an integral part of young people’s lives, especially boys. For instance, 61 percent of boys and 38 percent of girls experienced physical violence in the last three months. Almost as many students admitted to carrying out violence at school, as well. 

After the first six months of the program, researchers found an increase in a proportion of boys and girls who reported physically abusing school peers in recent months. However, among those students who participated in another round of the program, the rate declined. 

“After talking to facilitators, we think that a possible explanation for the decline is that GEMS sensitized students to behaviors that they thought were normal and perhaps even playful, like hitting or pushing,” Verma said. “So in the first year of GEMS, the students became aware of their own behaviors, and in the second year, they began to develop skills to avoid resorting to violence.” 

He added that schools still need to recognize how prevalent violence is in students’ lives and develop appropriate policies to distinguish between what is playful versus what is potentially violent. 

Reaching more youth

Overall, experts say evidence from GEMS demonstrates that group activities are effective in spurring discussions in the school setting on sensitive topics related to gender equality. And, such an approach can help change young people’s attitudes and behaviors. 

Achyut said the issues covered in GEMS resonated with students because they had experienced or were experiencing them in their own lives. “The group education activities were successful because facilitators engaged and interacted with the children,” she said. “Traditionally, this does not happen in schools; students are usually expected to sit and listen to instructors, not open up and debate topics with them.” 

Now, for the lessons of GEMS to make a lasting difference as youth transition to adulthood, experts say that the program needs to be integrated throughout the Maharashtra school system.

To that end, representatives from CORO and TISS are gradually training teachers to incorporate the program into their school days. And with new funding from the MacArthur Foundation, ICRW and its partners will start introducing GEMS to 250 additional Mumbai schools, reaching upwards of 80,000 boys and girls by 2014.

“Eventually, GEMS aims to mainstream its core ideas of gender equality within the school system in a manner that would enhance respect and dignity for girls and women, and promote zero tolerance for violence,” Verma said. “We think this will ultimately result in a healthier, more economically prosperous society.” 

Gillian Gaynair is ICRW’s writer and editor.

Reminder: Roundtable Discussion & Breakfast with Dr. Hawa Abdi

In case you didn’t see this….

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Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 11:52 AM
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Subject: Reminder: Roundtable Discussion & Breakfast with Dr. Hawa Abdi

Crisis in Somalia: One Woman’s Response

Vital Voices Global Partnership

Cordially invites you to a roundtable discussion

Featuring Dr. Hawa Abdi

Dr. Hawa Abdi’s life-saving efforts started in 1983 when she opened a one-room clinic on her family farm in Somalia. As the Somali government collapsed, refugees flocked to her clinic, seeking food and healthcare. Today, she runs a safe haven camp for approximately 90,000 refugees, mostly women and children, who fled the fighting in Mogadishu. With her country in crisis, Dr. Abdi's work is more critical than ever. We hope you will join us to show your support to this remarkable woman leader.

Vital Voices proudly partners with Glamour magazine to help support Dr. Hawa Abdi's cause through their Women of the Year Fund initiative. 

Thursday, August 4, 2011

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Location:

Vital Voices Global Partnership

1625 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Suite 300

Washington, DC 20036

To RSVP:

Please email 

YabaHaffar@VitalVoices.org by Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Dr. Abdi is the driving force behind the Hawa Abdi Foundation and Hawa Abdi Village, a foundation created in 1983 in Somalia, as a non-profit organization, dedicated to helping and providing quality health care for women and children. Since the beginning of the Somali Civil War, in 1991, the Hawa Abdi Foundation has been providing health care, not only for women and children but for all patients, of any gender, and any age.

Vital Voices Global Partnership is proud to partner with Glamour magazine to help support Dr. Hawa Abdi's cause through their Women of the Year Fund initiative. Vital Voices is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that identifies, invests in and brings visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their communities.

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June 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report

A few weeks ago I attended the release of G/TIP’s June 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report.  The report, along with several handouts, is on the bookshelf in my office, under the label “Trafficking/Migration.”

Allison Strype

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7/29 Brown Bag: Women & War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century

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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 2:01 PM
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Subject: 7/29 Brown Bag: Women & War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century

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Brown-Bag Author Series

WOMEN AND WAR

Power and Protection in the 21st Century

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Kathleen Kuehnast, Director, Gender and Peacebuilding Center, USIP

Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Director, Jenning Randolph Fellowship Program, USIP

The UN Security Council passed Resolution 1325 over ten years ago—calling for women’s equal participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women—but gender-based analysis of conflict is still absent from the mainstream security dialogue. In Women and War co-editors Kuehnast, de Jonge Oudraat, and Hernes evaluate the knowledge on women, peace and security issues and underscore what still needs to be done to develop effective conflict prevention and management strategies which include women.

Dr. Kathleen Kuehnast is director of the Gender and Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Prior to her present position, Kuehnast had a 15-year career in international development, where she worked extensively with the World Bank managing research and programmatic projects and advising policymakers on social development concerns, with a focus on gender. She also previously worked for the Asian Development Bank, the German Technical Cooperation Agency and UNDP. Kuehnast has also written extensively on the impact of post-Soviet transition on Muslim women in Central Asia.

Dr. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat directs the USIP’s Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program and as an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University. Before joining USIP, de Jonge Oudraat was a senior fellow at SAIS’s Center for Transatlantic Relations and received an AICGS Bosch Research Scholar Fellowship. She has also served as co-director of the Managing Global Issues project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; a research affiliate at the Belfer Center at Harvard University; and a member of the directing staff at UN Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva.


Friday, July 29, 2011, 12 – 1:30 p.m.
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Washington, DC

Space is limited. Advance registration is required.

This program is free of charge. Copies of Women and War will be available for purchase.

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Women's Choices: School vs. Children (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/07/14/womens-choices-school-vs-children

 

As women become more educated, they gain power and that leads them to have fewer children. This has been the accepted thinking for decades, and has been cited in campaigns to promote education for girls in countries with high population rates. A lower birth rate aids economic growth.

But in a recent study conducted in Norway, Joel Cohen, head of the Laboratory of Populations at Rockefeller University, and his co-authors from the University of Oslo, Øystein Kravdalb and Nico Keilmanb, found that childbearing kept Norwegian women from pursuing a higher education more than education impeded childbearing.

Does such research challenge the conventional wisdom or are the results simply different from country to country, depending on a country's level of development? How do we refine the age-old question: Does education reduce childbearing, or does childbearing get in the way of education?

Read the discussion here.

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Amy Ahearn

Program Coordinator

Education Programs Division, IREX

2121 K Street, Suite 700, Washington D.C. 20037

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Check out "UN Women Global Database of Women's Peacebuilding Organizations" on Peace and Collaborative Development Network

From: Craig Zelizer [mailto:share@internationalpeaceandconflict.org]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:16 AM
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Subject: Check out "UN Women Global Database of Women's Peacebuilding Organizations" on Peace and Collaborative Development Network

Building Bridges, Networks and Expertise Across Sectors

Craig Zelizer

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Check out the blog post 'UN Women Global Database of Women's Peacebuilding Organizations'

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