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Sarah Rainsford reporting for the BBC in Israel just to the south of the border during the Lebanonwar in the summer of 2006. © Chris Cobb-Smith, Chiron Resources.Gender sensitive trainings should be available for women and malereporters, as well as for subeditors, news editors and programmemakers who should play a greater role in eliminating insensitivelanguage and stereotypes in the news. A list of some availabletrainings can be found in the resource section of this booklet.INSI offers safety training for local reporters in conflict zones, includingfor women. INSI also publishes a wide range of safety leaflets fromdealing with surveillance and death threats (personal safety issues), tocovering conflict and natural disaster, what to do in case of arrest orkidnap and how to secure a newsroom. (www.newssafety.com).The DART Center for Journalism and Trauma is a global network that notonly works to improve the way traumatic events are covered in the news,but also the consequences of covering these events for journalists. Theypublish best practice guidelines, and to protect journalists there are awide variety of tip sheets (http://www.dartcenter.org/).12 GENDER EQUALITY IN JOURNALISM
PART II:Stereotypes in the MediaArepetitive use of notorious gender stereotypes (such asshowing women only as carers of the family or as sexualobjects) affects the public’s perception of reality. Thestereotypes are everywhere. They exist in the portrayal of glamorouswomen to promote cosmetics and beauty products or in stories ofwomen as carers and homemakers, again often to sell householdfood and services. This phenomenon was denounced in theDeclaration adopted at the United Nations Fourth World conferenceon Women in Beijing, 1995, which called on media owners andmedia professionals to develop and adopt codes or guidelines topromote a fair and accurate portrayal of women in the media.The 2005 GMMP report pointed at the marginalization of womenwho make up 21% of people featured in the news.Percentage of people in the news that are women, GMMP 2005302520%151050Africa Asia Caribbean Europe L. America Middle East N. America PacificGENDER EQUALITY IN JOURNALISM13
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