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Shirley Barrett burst onto the international scene when her debut film, Love Serenade won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.
A new study reveals how female climate scientists are perceived by their peers during media interviews.
It will take another 67 years to close the gender gap in news, according to the latest global survey of women in the media.
An international survey of women media workers has found that in many cases, physical attacks appear to have followed online threats.
Facing a hostile government and a financial squeeze, the new boss of the UK’s public broadcaster has his work cut out for him.
Feminists in Africa must step up to the challenge and redress the manner in which African women are portrayed in the digital age.
Today’s workplaces extend beyond physical spaces, so movements like #metoo must trigger change in how we behave online.
In the 1970s thousands of women in media took their employers to court over pay inequality. While many were successful, similar cases today show the fight for equality has a long way to go.
The allegations of sexual harassment against Don Burke have exposed a media culture rife with misogyny. But what will it take to change?
TV commercials continue to traffic in outmoded gender roles, relegating women to the home. A media scholar explains how these stereotypical portrayals can fuel workplace harassment by powerful men.
Female popular musicians die younger – and from more unnatural causes like suicide, homicide and accidents – than women in the general population. What’s going wrong?
More mothers and older women working in the industry can balance how women are represented onscreen.
This plastic matters: girls as young as three-and-a-half associate thin dolls with being smart and heavy dolls with being sad.
Bad female characters start with bad writing. We compare male and female character descriptions, which are often used as the starting point for casting calls.
Australia’s defining narratives are apparently, with rare exception, stories by, for and about white cis men. We need more than Screen Australia’s new measures to address gender equity in the film industry.
Screen Australia has announced a five point plan to promote gender balance, including A$3 million funding for female-led creative projects.
If the Australian screen industry is to grow into the future and prosper, it cannot ignore the untapped creative talent and leadership potential of women. We need strategies to address this problem.
I have spent the past 20 years researching and writing about women in the media. This was initially sparked off by how I was reported on when I stood as a councillor, with more attention paid to my Doc…
Did the grim story of dapper real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay’s calculated murder of his wife Allison in April 2012, played out recently in a Brisbane court with a life sentence, make you feel afraid…
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Honorary Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, Professor of Music (rtd), University of Sydney
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Global Director of Research, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Research Associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ), University of Oxford
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Senior lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Communication, Cardiff University
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Associate professor, Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of Media, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lecturer in Screenwriting, The University of Melbourne
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Senior research fellow, University of Ibadan
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Adjunct Professor of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Research Assistant, University of Sydney
