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In this Reuters Institute’s factsheet we analyse the gender breakdown of top editors in a strategic sample of 240 major online and offline news outlets in 12 different markets across four continents.
Looking at a sample of 10 top online news outlets and 10 top offline news outlets in each of these 12 markets, we find:
Only 22% of the 180 top editors across the 240 brands covered are women, despite the fact that, on average, 40% of journalists in the 12 markets are women. Looking only at the 10 markets we covered in 2020 and again in 2021, 23% of top editors are women, the same percentage as last year.
Looking exclusively at the 178 brands included both this year and last year, the percentage of women among the top editors has changed from 22% in 2020 to 24% in 2021. Among 37 new top editors across these brands, 16% of these are women. (There were 14% women among the outgoing top editors.)
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Daily Monitor
Monday March 08 2021
This year’s theme for the International Women’s Day is ‘Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world.’ The idea of achieving an equal future post Covid-19 seems far-fetched. Yet, it is possible to be deliberate in pursuing that goal.
The role of women in leadership has been the main topic whenever the subject of women’s empowerment is brought up.
‘Increase the number of women in leadership if you want to see results’ we are often told. Policy makers have gone ahead to not only create affirmative action to that effect, but also some, such as in Uganda, created quotas for women in politics.
March 7 - 2021 DABANGA SUDAN
Women attend a workshop on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security (Sojoud Elgarrai/UNAMID)
Since Sudan reached the public eye over years of civil war in Darfur, Kordofan, and the Blue Nile, under which war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide
were committed, Sudanese women have been cast as the victims of physical and sexual violence in the media.
While Sudanese women continue to be disproportionately affected by violence in its various forms in the country, they have also been at the forefront of the revolution, demanding justice and peace. “Known to be leaders in all aspects of society, these women have taken on the part of caretakers, heads of households, and now, the face of the Sudanese revolution,” according to Washington-based Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG).