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- Women’s Day 2004 - Summary
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The MMP assessed a number of print and broadcast media during the week preceding National Women’s Day, on the day itself and on the 10th of August 2004.
Top Three for 2004:
- Mail & Guardian
- This Day
- Sunday Times
Despite being a weekly paper and therefore only having one edition in which to respond to the challenge, the Mail & Guardian managed to out-perform all of the other media monitored during the period. Not only were numerous items devoted to women featured in the Mail & Guardian, but the medium also included women as a central focus of its news agenda. This meant that the Mail & Guardian mainstreamed women in their paper, including female journalists, sources, female perspectives, diverse images of women, famous and ordinary women as authors and contributors. The Mail & Guardian‘s ability to determine its own news agenda ensured that the medium generated meaningful discussions about women’s rights and issues, instead of just event-based reporting on some of the functions held in commemoration of National Women’s Day.
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- National Women’s Day Media Challenge 2004
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The MMP’s challenge is for the media to mainstream women on National Women’s Day. Instead of media merely concentrating on so called “women’s issues” and only on the celebrations that are set to take place on the 9th of August, the MMP challenges the media to fill their papers, radio broadcasts, television schedules and news programmes with women.
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- Reporting Rape: Ethics, Gender and Human Rights
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This article is a response to news dominated this last week by the story of the alleged rape of a South African woman by a South African judge.
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- The representation of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gendered people
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The Bill of Rights enshrined in the South African Constitution clearly and unambiguously outlaws discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender and marital status (Act 108 of 1996, chapter 2, paragraph 9). Yet Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans-gendered (GLB&T) people remain stigmatised and marginalised in South African society. GLB&T people are confronted on a daily by social and institutional discrimination and little is known about the challenges and concerns facing them.
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- Exposing Women in the Media
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For the last three years the MMP has observed that a few weeks before National Women’s Day on the 9th of August there is a dramatic increase in coverage of women and issues perceived as pertinent to women. The majority of items are usually more analytical and deal with a range of issues and subjects from violence against women to the role of women in society and business. In spite of the worrying aspect that women tend only to get such substantial coverage a few weeks before and after National Women’s day the trend is at least positive in that it displays a level of commitment from the various media to deal with and represent women in more interesting, diverse and equitable ways.
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- A Snapshot Survey of Women’s Representation in the South African Media at the end of the Millenium
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In our country discrimination against women and sexism continues despite a new constitution which guarantees all South Africans freedom and equality. The media plays a role in this. The extent to which the media allows and opens our eyes and minds to the rights and roles of women in our society, helps to shape public perceptions and the attitudes of people in our country to the rights of women and against discrimination.
However the media can also prevent or limit our understanding. This project aims to evaluate just how limiting or open the media is being about women and the roles women occupy in our society. It is fitting, at the close of the millennium, to evaluate where women feature in our media and to reflect on the message that their status in the media sends to the society in which we live.
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- Bad Girls: A critical analysis of media coverage of women in politics
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This research examines the media’s treatment of women in politics over the past five years. Beginning with an evaluation of the predominant approaches and research conducted on media coverage of women in politics, the paper draws on appropriate methodologies to investigate how the media reported women and gender issues during the 1994 National Elections. Following this the research analyses the media’s treatment of women in politics, the problems they face and the media coverage they receive. The case of Dr Zuma, the current Minister of Health is studied and the results of this contextualised within the patriarchal discourses prominent in our society. Drawing on the views of journalists and some politicians the research proposes certain goals and actions that should be taken, in order to transform media coverage of women in politics.
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- Reporting Abortion: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act
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Clause 11 in our Bill of Rights guarantees the right to life whilst clause 12 (2a,b) gives everyone the right to “make decisions concerning reproduction” and “security in and control over their body.” Issues such as abortion and the death penalty create a tension within the parameters of these rights. MMP monitored to see how the Act was portrayed.
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