The document outlines a report on the situation of women and the media in the EU and its member states. The report aims to assess progress on an objective of the Beijing Platform for Action and propose indicators. It will include a literature review, analysis of media organizations' gender policies, and data collection on women's representation in media. The outcomes will be submitted over 10 months in interim and final reports to inform a separate EIGE report on women and the media to be published in early 2013.

1. Review of the area J:
Women and the Media
Gender and the Media
Vilnius, May 2012

2. The aim and objectives of the Report
The aim:
To report on the current situation at the EU level and at
the Member States level in implementing the obj ective 1
of the area J Women and the Media of the Beij
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Platform for A ction (BPfA and to introduce possible
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indicators in this area

3. The aim and objectives of the Report
The objectives:
• To produce a literature review on gender and media, with special emphasis on
women’s involvement in decision making in the boards of the media
organisations (tv, radio, written press), both public and private;
• To collect data regarding codes of conduct that the media organisations might
have adopted and analyses gender equality issues in order to avoid
discrimination based on sex;
• To propose indicators for area J on basis of available data
• To collect and analysed at MS level the way women and men are presented in
the media (does not include commercials and movies); this is a separate part
of the contract, as will not come up in the Report for the Irish Presidency; it
will be a separate product for EIGE in order to develop an independent
publication out of it.
The outcomes

4. Timeframe for the development of the
Report
• June 2012: Contract signed; duration 1 0 months.
• S eptember 2012: Interim report received and
discussed in the meeting of the Working Group on
Beij indicators.
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• End of October 2012: Final report will be submitted
to EIGE. On basis of the submitted document, EIGE will
prepare a report on Women and the Media.
• Mid December 2012: the report will be sent for
comments to the members of the HLG on GM.

5. Timeframe for the development of the
Report
• Middle of January 2013: send to the HLG on GM a
revised version of the report with included changes.
• End of January: EIGE will include last changes
based on the comments and suggestions coming from
the members of the HLG on GM.
• Beginning of February 2013: EIGE will adopt and
make public the Report on Women and the
Environment in the EU and the EU Members States.

6. Contacts
Virginija Langbakk – Director
Virginija.Langbakk@eige.europa.eu
Jolanta Reingarde – Senior Researcher
Jolanta.Reingarde@eige.europa.eu
Ilze Burkevica – Statistics Officer
Ilze.Burkevica@eige.europa.eu
Ioana Borza – Gender Expert
Ioana.Borza@eige.europa.eu
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