Read the transcript or listen to the podcast of the London Review of Books lecture by academic Mary Beard delivered in March 2014. It considers the suppression of women’s voices in western cultural history.
- For a consideration of women’s voices in journalism and the media look at the Expert Women campaign from Broadcast. The online petition has over 3,000 signatures. Unfortunately many of the articles on the Broadcast website which summarise recent research on women in the media are password protected.
- In terms of the UK – Women in Film & TV is the leading membership organisation for women working in creative media . Its website is a good starting point for finding news, support networks and summaries of research.
- In the USA the Women’s Media Center, founded in 2005 as a non-profit progressive women’s media organization by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, aims to make women visible and powerful in the media. Its website has news, training events and reports. It also has an excellent media monitoring section on its blog which highlights examples of sexism in the media (mainly American)
- For a broader perspective try reading the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, from the International Women’s Media foundation.
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