The media (re)present stereotypical images and discriminatory views of womens and men. Yet media professionals have not yet consciously addressed the gender clichés in their work to any significant extent.
The League of Women Journalist is therefore acitvely seeking to ensure that gender training becomes an integral part of journalism studies and further education.
Social reality comprises a wide spectrum of identies, which are derived from gender but also from culture, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
The League of Women Journalists considers the aprropriate presentation of these identities to be a criterion in assessing journalist quality and sophistication. We are convinced that media professionals have more room for decision than practical necessity, work habits and political agendas would seem to allow.
The gender training programs that we offer in cooperation with our partners at universities, journalism schools and media academies are designed to meet the needs of both the new generation of journalists and our established colleagues. Our courses run from modules of a few hours to seminars of several days, covering such topics as priciniples and current research in media/gender studies, analyses and practical exercises using journalist texts and images, and guidelines for gender-sensitive writing. Our instructors, both men an women, posses broad experience in adult education.
For more information, please see our website in german.
