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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 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...
A photo essay by Masrat Zahra It has been two years since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which granted Jammu and Kashmir special status. The abrogation was followed by many months of further clampdown on the state including the cutting off of...
By Raihana Maqbool Two years ago, on 5 August 2019, the Government of India, in an unprecedented political cataclysm- unheard of in the entire history of democracy- revoked the special status of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir and unleashed a reign of...
By Sumita Jaiswal and Parul Sharma “We need to move from a gender sensitive and gender responsive approach to a gender transformative approach,” said Nafisa Binte Shafique, Chief, UNICEF office for Bihar, speaking at a webinar on 26 July, 2021, organised by the Bihar...
The Network of Women in Media, India in collaboration with the Bangalore International Centre and the Centre for Law & Policy Research hosted the webinar, 'Who's on Trial Here? A Deep Dive into the Tarun Tejpal Verdict' on July 20, 2021. It featured NWMI members...
Has coverage of Elections 2021 amplified unsavoury, sexist comments for the sake of readership, viewership and/or clicks? Can the news media do better? If so, how? BOOM’s H R Venkatesh speaks with journalists Neha Dixit and Raksha Kumar (both NWMI members) about the...
By Padmaja Shaw Preliminary data from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2020 indicates that the presence of women in Indian news media has declined – albeit with some exceptions – over the past decade. The overall presence of women as news subjects across...
The Network of Women In Media, India (NWMI) notes with concern a lack of commitment and increasing confusion in India’s English news media regarding the coverage of sexual harassment. The latest episode is the disappearance of several articles about complaints of...
By Ammu Joseph It looks as if it’s not just Bengaluru, but Karnataka as a whole, that’s unfriendly towards women in politics. According to this report in The Economic Times (also published in the Bangalore edition of The Times of India on 17 April, p2), “On an...
With elections to the Legislative Assemblies in four states (Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Karnataka) coming up soon, the Network of Women in Media, India, in association with 101 Reporters, a pan-India network of grassroots reporters, organised a workshop on gender inclusivity during election coverage.
Switching on the television to follow election result coverage, I find myself searching for women panelists. Surfing channels at around 9 a.m., I saw: One on NDTV in a panel of about six people; One on CNN-IBN in a larger panel; Two out of eight on Headlines Today;...