Uruguayan news stories continue to reinforce gender stereotypes

Posted: 23 November 2010 | News - MMA in the Media | Categories: Gender, Media Freedom and Performance

As in 99 other countries, Uruguay news stories continue to reinforce gender stereotypes. As subjects women feature in 61% of "Social and Legal" stories, but when it comes to "Politics and Government" they barely reach 8% according to the fourth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2010.

The project was coordinated by the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) together with Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), based in South Africa, which was responsible for the analysis of the information gathered.

[Translation from Spanish]

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