Brussels — In a report released on International Women' s day (8 March), the Gender Council (GC) of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) highlights high levels of gender discrimination and violence against women in the media across the globe.
"We have hit a plateau, a place where movement and change appear non-existent," states the report, pointing at the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), which indicates every five years the place women hold in the news. Its 2015 report starkly concludes that "Progress for women in news media has grinded to a halt." The GMMP 2015 report, which was conducted in 114 countries with the help of some IFJ affiliates, shows that women make up "only 24% of the persons heard, read about or seen in newspaper, television and radio news, exactly the same level found in the 2010 report."
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