1st Edition

Gender Equality and the Media A Challenge for Europe

Edited By Karen Ross, Claudia Padovani Copyright 2017
284 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited collection draws on and expands the findings from a pan-European research project undertaken during 2012-13 which was funded by the European Institute for Gender Equality and aimed to explore three key issues in relation to gender and media: women’s inclusion in decision-making positions within media industries; how women are represented in the media; and what policies and mechanisms... Read more

Foreword

I Introduction

II Research and Policy Review

III The WIME Project: Context, Methods and Summary of Findings

IV The National Case Studies

1 Austria (Susanne Kirchhoff and Dimitri Prandner)

2 Belgium (Sofie van Bauwel)

3 Croatia (Dina Vozab and Adela Zember)

4 Denmark (Rikke Andreassen)

5 Estonia (Ruta Pels)

6 Finland (Tarja Savolainen)

7 France (Laetitia Biscarrat, Marlène Coulomb-Gully, Cécile Méadel)

8 Malta (Brenda Murphy)

9 The Netherlands (Els Rommes and Lysandra Podesta)

10 Poland (Wiesław Oleksy and Elżbieta H. Oleksy)

11 Portugal (Claudia Alvares and Iolanda Veríssimo)

12 Romania (Daniela Rovenţa-Frumuşani, Natalia Milewski, Romina Surugiu and Theodora Văcărescu)

13 Slovenia (Brankica Petković)

14 Spain (Núria Simelio)

15 Sweden (Dag Balkmar)

16 UK and Ireland (Karen Ross, Charlotte Barlow and Debbie Ging)

V Conclusions

Biography

Karen Ross is Professor of Gender and Media in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK

Claudia Padovani is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical and Political Science at the University of Padova, Italy