Media & ICTs

Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action highlighted five key points in the women, media and development relationship. These are: advances made in information technology, particularly the scope for communication networks to transcend national borders, that have benefits and disadvantages for women; increases in the numbers of women who work in the communications sector that have not translated in increased access to power and decision-making in media organisations; or media policy; the lack of gender sensitivity in media policies and programmes; increased promotion of consumerism; and the need to create self-regulatory mechanisms for the media; continued stereotyped portrayal of women in the media and the increase in violent and pornographic images of women; obstacles to women's ability to access the expanding electronic information highways; and the need to involve women in the development and dissemination of new information technologies.

This section brings together content focusing on women's concerns about the media - about ownership, control, representation and portrayal of women and girls and the lack of gender analysis in the realm of media content, policy, participation and regulation.

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