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Research Reports are indepth, often quantitative reports around our various programme areas.
Category: Gender [REMOVE]
- Keeping an eye on the campaign: 2004 16 days final report
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Key findings for the 16 Days of Activism 2004 show an unprecedented high number of female sources: 46% women: 54% men. This, together with the dramatic increase in number of gender-based violence, woman and child abuse stories than in previous MMP research in 1998 is a positive trend.
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- GMMP South African Country Report
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The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) South African report was launched at Constitutional Hill on 7 March 2006. According to Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, speaking in her keynote address “In spite of the numerous advances that we have made as a society, it is clear even from the results of the GMMP that high levels of inequality still prevail in our society.”
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- GMMP: Global report
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The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the most extensive global research of gender in news media ever undertaken. When the first GMMP was conducted in 1995, few of those involved could have imagined that it would develop in the way that it went on to do. Ten years later, with the third such project now complete, the enormous significance of this international initiative is clear.
The MMP completed all the data analysis for the entire project. Please view the key findings of this global initiative.
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- Who took up the challenge? Selected Media Coverage of National Women’s Day 2004
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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. In the MMP’s assessment of how the media responded to the challenge consideration was given to the number of reports about women, the kind of topics that addressed, focused on or were aimed at women, and the prominence of where or when these items appeared in the news.
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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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