THE STANDARD By Jane Godia | March 8th 2021 at 14:42:51 GMT +0300 Jane Godia, Director, Africa, Women in News. Today is International Women’s Day - it’s a moment to think about how much better our news diet could be if inequities were eliminated In 1995, when the curtains fell in one of the largest meetings that have ever brought women together to discuss women in development, it was noted that women and media remain key to development. Twenty-six years later, the relevant “Article J” of the Beijing Platform for Action, remains unfulfilled. Its two strategic objectives with regard to Women and Media have not been met. They are: