MMA launched the Gender Discrimination in Zambian Media Workplaces: Airing Out The Laundry report in Lusaka on Tue 8 December. The report seeks to present a comprehensive understanding of how gender discrimination manifests itself in Zambian media workplaces. The research examined the: Prevalence an...

  The report first outlines the methodology adopted for this project, then gives a breakdown of what discrimination is and gives examples of the different types of gender discrimination. The last part looks at how gender discrimination manifests itself in newsrooms. To view the full report  Vi...

  The research study had a three-pronged approach to exploring masculinity in media. Firstly, the project analysed media content which collected over 21,000 words associated with male and female sources in order to find linguistic patterns between different sexes and their portrayals in the med...

Gender discrimination, in its various debilitating forms, is known to occur in almost every professional setting.For this reason, Media Monitoring Africa and local media partners in Zimbabwe investigated the nature of gender discrimination in Zimbabwean newsrooms. This was achieved through exploring...

When Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) published a preliminary look into the winners and sinners in the media coverage around Women’s Day and Month, a more comprehensive analysis of print articles and television reports from that period was also promised. Here it is! The study concludes that although ...

The Sunday Times dedicated its edition on the 23rd of May 2010 to both powerful and ordinary women doing great work for the economy and in their communities. It focused on a diverse range of issues including South African work culture, political and business leadership, as well as innovators in educ...

Introduction and Results In MMA’s previous weekly report, “No Big Deal” – Poverty, Service Delivery and Election Coverage, we began discussion of the topics paid attention to in media’s election coverage. In this report, we continue the analysis, though with a focus on issues around gender...

In the month of August, Women’s Month, the Media Monitoring Project (MMP) monitored the media with a specific focus on the portrayal of women. This is part of MMP’s work as an independent media watchdog, fundamentally concerned with promoting Human Rights in the media.  During the monitoring of...