The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

This handbook offers the first global study of women's employment in news using survey data. It comprises chapters on 29 nations from all regions of the world, authored by local researchers who have a depth of knowledge about their nations' culture, history, gender relations and journalism. This handbook is a timely academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation and published in 2011. The study was conducted by the book's editor, international feminist media scholar, Carolyn M. Byerly. The text draws together the most robust data from that study, presenting it in 29 chapters on individual nations and three additional chapters with historical background on women in journalism and a theoretical framework grounded in feminist political economy. The book is the most expansive effort to date to consider women's standing in the journalism profession across the world. The contributing authors, in most cases the original researchers for their respective nations in the Global Report study, seek to question the status of women in newsrooms, asking how far women have come and what their progress (or lack of progress) tells us about women's right to communicate Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii Introduction....Pages 1-10 Factors Affecting the Status of Women Journalists: A Structural Analysis....Pages 11-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Bulgaria: Cinderella Went to Market, with Consequences for Women Journalists....Pages 27-38 Estonia: Women Journalists and Women’s Emancipation in Estonia....Pages 39-50 Finland: Women Journalists, the Unequal Majority....Pages 51-65 Russia: Women Journalists and the Engendered Transition....Pages 66-77 Sweden: Women Reach Parity but Gender Troubles Persist....Pages 78-91 South Africa: Newsrooms in Transition....Pages 92-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 Canada: The Paradox of Women in News....Pages 109-121 Israel: Women Still a Minority, but in a Better Place....Pages 122-136 Norway: The Uncomfortable Gender Gap in News Media....Pages 137-150 Poland: Women Journalists and ‘The Polish Mother’ Mentality....Pages 151-163 Spain: Many Women, Little Power....Pages 164-175 The UK: Equal Opportunities in Theory, but Not Practice....Pages 176-190 The US: Social Contradictions Also Seen in Newsrooms....Pages 191-207 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Brazil: Need for National Debate on Women in Journalism....Pages 211-225 Chile: Female Journalists Without Access to Power....Pages 226-237 France: A Nuanced Feminization of Journalism....Pages 238-252 Germany: Parity Number-wise, but Women Face a Glass Ceiling....Pages 253-265 Kenya: ‘A girl may not sit on the father’s stool’....Pages 266-283 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 Mexico: Structural Challenges for Women in News Media....Pages 284-300 Namibia: Women Make Strides in Post-independence Newsrooms....Pages 301-314 Uganda: Women Near Parity but Still Leaving Newsrooms....Pages 315-329 Front Matter....Pages 331-331 Australia: A Case of Systemic Inequity for Women Journalists....Pages 333-345 Bangladesh: Gender Inequality Results from Policy Inequity....Pages 346-357 China: Women Journalists, Chinese News Media and Historical Shifts....Pages 358-370 Ghana: Women in Decision-making — New Opportunities, Old Story....Pages 371-383 India: What You See Is Not What You Get....Pages 384-403 Japan: Why So Few Women Journalists?....Pages 404-418 Jordan: Toward Gender Balance in the Newsrooms....Pages 419-431 Lebanon: Women’s Struggle for Gender Equality and Harassment-free Newsrooms....Pages 432-448 Front Matter....Pages 449-449 Conclusion: Journalism and Women’s Broader Struggle....Pages 451-460 Back Matter....Pages 461-477 Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study. This text draws together the most robust data from that original study, presenting it in 29 chapters on individual nations and three additional theoretical chapters. The book is the most expansive effort to date to consider women's standing in the journalism profession across the world. Contents organize nations in relation to their progress within newsrooms, with those most advanced in gender equality representing diversity in terms of region and national development. Contributing authors are, in most cases, the original researchers for their respective nations in the Global Report study.