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As India played host to Miss World this month, NWMI members Ammu Joseph and Gita Aravamudan look back at the controversy created during the beauty pageant and media coverage of it, when it was held in India for the first time in 1996. AMMU JOSEPH While I was working...
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India, (NWMI), was conferred the Laadli Gender Champion Award by Population First. NWMI was recognised for promoting gender sensitivity in media and fostering solidarity among women journalists. This award was instituted in...
By Malini Subramaniam Twenty of the 90 seats in Chhattisgarh will go to the polls in the first phase of the state Assembly election on 7 November. The second phase, for the remaining 70 seats, will be held on 17 November. For now, we will focus on the first phase. Of...
InkSights is a monthly series by NWMI member Anupama Bijur viewing current affairs through a gender and news lens. The 70-hour workweek conversation needs a gendered perspective. Indian women already spend 7.2 hours per day on unpaid domestic work (compared to 2.8...
By Editors Members of the Network of Women in Media, India, were recognised for their work at the 13th regional edition of the Laadli Media &Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2023. The awards are given by Population First, UNFPA and Lok Samvad Sansthan,...
InkSights is a monthly series by NWMI member Anupama Bijur viewing current affairs through a gender and news lens.
InkSights is our monthly series by illustrator, artist and NWMI member Anupama Bijur. She will visually examine the intersection of gender and the media for us.
InkSights is our new monthly series by illustrator, artist and NWMI member Anupama Bijur. She will visually examine the intersection of gender and the media for us.
NWMI Patna Declaration In the wake of increasing attacks on the freedom of the media in India, the NWMI’s 17th National Meeting (27-29 January 2023) in Patna, Bihar, calls upon journalists, media workers and the public to stand up for press freedom, ethical...
By Editors The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) will hold its 17th National Meeting on the theme “Media, Gender and Social Justice: Towards an Equitable Society” from 27 to 29 January, 2023 at the Aryabhatta Knowledge University, Patna, Bihar. Organised by the...
By Editors Members of the Network of Women in Media, India, were recognised for their work at the regional edition of the Laadli Media &Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2022. The awards are given by Population First, and supported by UNFPA and the...
By Janaki Srinivasan (Guest Post) When campaigning for the assembly elections in Punjab began in earnest over two months ago, it seemed like gender issues in general and gender inequality in particular would finally become an issue in the electoral battle. These...
By Kamalika Sengupta (Guest Post) As I boarded my plane for Imphal, my expectation was that my coverage of the Manipur Assembly election would definitely include stories related to women. One of the first things I tried to do soon after I landed in Manipur was to find...
By Editors High decibel screeching and frenetic finger pointing seem to be the staple of daily television news channels today. Be it prime time news or talk shows, aggression and competitive intimidation are rife in an atmosphere where hostile behaviour is not only...
By Editors Several members of Network of Women in Media, India were recognised for their work at the regional edition of the Laadli Media &Advertising Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2021. The awards recognise gender sensitivity in the media. More than 900 entries...
By Editors The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the largest and longest longitudinal study on gender in the world’s media. GMMP research has taken the pulse of selected indicators of gender in the news media across the world every five years since 1995,...
By Editors All things remaining equal, it will take at least a further 67 years to close the average gender equality gap in traditional news media: Highlights from the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the largest research and advocacy...
By Leena Gita Reghunath The most iconic female politician that Kerala has ever known, KR Gouri, is no more. She left us on May 11, 2021, wrapped in the red communist flag that she loved, stamped with the hammer, sickle and star. Born into an Ezhava Dalit family that...
By Durba Ghosh They may be derogatorily labelled as 'Bangladeshis' or 'miyas', but the descendants of Bengali Muslims of erstwhile East Bengal origin in Assam, particularly the women of the community, have firmly asserted their democratic rights in the recently...
By Swarna Rajagopalan (guest post) Over the years, I have come to bristle and splutter when asked to justify the importance of including more and more women — an equal number, even — in electoral nominations and political appointments. It’s 2021, I want to snap, and...