Gender Underrepresentation Global Media Media versus other Industries 50:50 Consumption Patterns Job Roles Wage Gap Harassment Transgenders Role Models Warning Signs

1. MEDIA &
GENDER EQUITY
• Bajinder Pal SINGH | June 2021 |
• CHULALONGKORN SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED INNOVATION

2. UNDERREPRESENTATION

3. Men Outnumber Women in Media 4:1 in India, 5:1 in Pakistan (2015)
4:1 5:1
INDIA PAKISTAN

4. SOURCE: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/men-outnumber-women-media-41-india-51-pakistan-bajinder-pal-singh

5. GLOBAL
MEDIA

6. Women’s Role as
Television News
Reporters
48% of
Televised News
Being Reported
by Women

9. SOURCE: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/shattering-the-glass-screen#
OTHER
INDUSTRIES

10. HOW
?

14. SOURCE: https://hbr.org/2019/06/tackling-the-underrepresentation-of-women-in-media

15. There Is No Consensus In
Literature On Why
Women Consume Less
News Than Men
CONSUMPTION

16. Women as Percentage of
News Beat Staff (2019)
JOB
ROLES

17. WAGE
GAP

18. WAGE
GAP

19. HARASSMENT
85% Respondents said Harassment is Common
30% said it Often Leads to Sexual Assault

20. 112 Countries: Journalists Were
Polled For This Report
40 Were Identified as Dangerous
or Very Dangerous for Women
Journalists
HARASSMENT

21. TRANSGENDER

22. TRANSGENDER

23. Arguably the first woman
journalist of the country,
VIDYA MUNSHI was born in
1919 and worked in various
newspapers & magazines
ROLE
MODELS
Lioness in Winter

24. Homai Vyarawalla

25. ROLE
MODELS
SOURCE: https://alkazifoundation.org/lady-in-that-rough-crowd/

26. ROLE
MODELS
Pratima Puri
SOURCE: https://in.news.yahoo.com/10-dd-news-anchors-to-take-you-on-a-trip-down-
nostalgia-lane-164345610.html
SOURCE: https://www.thebetterindia.com/164932/dd-woman-newsreader-
pratima-puri-india-news/
Interviewing Yuri Gagarin

27. William Howard Russell
SOURCE: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001697687/

29. Marie Colvin
SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51045820

30. SOURCE: https://www.showcasecinemas.co.uk/film-info/a-private-war
SOURCE: https://www.amazon.com/Extremis-Death-Correspondent-Marie-Colvin/dp/0374175594

31. SOURCE: Screengrab of NDTV https://youtu.be/1-rZl-DWcyg

32. SOURCE: https://indianjournalismreview.com/2010/08/06/look-whos-now-a-war-comic-book-character/

33. SOURCE: https://twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1259505702080397312?s=20 SOURCE: https://twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1366341277944475649?s=20

34. SOURCE: https://twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1127398739805708288?s=20

35. WARNING
SIGNS
ENDING THE TALK WITH
SOME HOMEWORK

37. HOW CAN WE FUTURE PROOF
THIS OBNOXIOUS TREND ?

38. UNDERREPRESENTATION
GLOBAL MEDIA
OTHER INDUSTRIES
50:50?
CONSUMPTION
JOB ROLES
WAGE GAP
HARASSMENT
TRANSGENDER
ROLE MODELS
WARNING SIGNS
SOURCES
MEDIA
&
GENDER
EQUITY

39. SOURCES
SOURCES

40. SOURCES
The Chilling: Global Trends In Online Violence Against Women Journalists
https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/the-chilling.pdf
2020 Global Media Monitoring Project
https://whomakesthenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/preliminary-findings-of-the-2.pdf
Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations of Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000233420
BBC 50:50 Impact Report 2021
https://www.bbc.com/5050/documents/50-50-impact-report-2021.pdf
Missing Perspectives of Women in News
https://www.iwmf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020.11.19-The-Missing-Perspectives-of-Women-in-News-FINAL-REPORT.pdf
A Study of Pay at the Washington Post
https://postguild.org/pdf/GUILDPAYSTUDY_FINAL_2019.pdf
Sexism’s Toll on Journalism
https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/sexisms_toll_on_journalism.pdf
SOURCES

41. SOURCES
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/men-outnumber-women-media-41-india-51-pakistan-bajinder-pal-singh
McKinsey
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/shattering-the-glass-screen#
Harvard Business Review
https://hbr.org/2019/06/tackling-the-underrepresentation-of-women-in-media
Deutsche Welle
https://www.dw.com/en/pakistans-first-transgender-anchor-i-struggled-a-lot-to-be-accepted/a-43164626
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/world/asia/bangladesh-transgender-tv-anchor.html
The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/kolkata/veteran-communist-leader-vidya-munshi-dead/article6188994.ece
The Telegraph
https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/style/lioness-in-winter/cid/1552460
International Federation of Journalists
https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/women-workers/article/equal-pay-700-bbc-women-have-had-pay-rises-since-my-case-samira-ahmed.html
SOURCES

42. CONTACT
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LinkedIn
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Bajinder Pal SINGH | June 2021