Goals to Keep in Mind:
1. Synthesis of the academic understanding and the everyday experience
2. Addressing how to have an educational, productive, and positive conversation about sexism.
I haven’t much explored this one, but the tag line is “a global voice for gender justice.”
A format for reporting sexism you see in the media.
Identifying sexism in the media and doing something about it.
"The grand title editorial designer, which I sometimes use, is a slight provocation. I am not a graphic designer, and don’t aim to become one, but as a design critic and editor, I have come to regard the craft of designing as essentially the craft of organizing meaningful structure. Writing, editing and design are connected. We may have different talents and professional expertise, our common job is to organise interfaces between content and form. Conversely, every visual design principally is an editorial activity. As a writer and editor, I highly value this aspect of designers’ expertise. In that respect we are colleagues in editorialism."
— Max Briunsma
(Source: maxbruinsma.nl)
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Boys Will Hire Boys: The Media Is Male and Getting Maler
Women are still highly underrepresented in media both on and off the screen.
The good news: In 2011, women held 40.5 percent of newsroom jobs, compared to the 36.6 percent they occupied in 2010. The bad news: By almost every other measure, media remains overwhelmingly male, and it’s getting maler.
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Where Is the Next Generation of Innovators?
Everyone from business leaders to President Obama is calling for more young leaders in the areas of science, math, engineering, and technology. But many young people say they aren’t even considering careers in these fields. Why not? A recent survey asked them to explain their hesitance.
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Recently, a female GOOD staffer was commiserating with a male journalist about the dearth of female bylines in major American magazines. She suggested a solution: He should speak to the editors of these magazines—people he knows personally—about how awesome she is. She was on the phone with a highly regarded editor within a week, discussing the possibilities for freelance work.
Reading big statistics, it’s easy to place yourself in a bystander role. You acknowledge that women are underrepresented in your industry—particularly if you work in media, design, or tech. You know that they are far less visible, and probably paid less, than men of equal experience. You’re frustrated at how difficult it sometimes seems to fill your workplace or panel discussion with enough women. But what have you ever done about it?
PROMOTE WOMEN. It’s time to stop lamenting and start doing. Here’s how:
1 Think of three women in your industry who are underpaid, underemployed, or under-noticed. Women who are rising through the ranks more slowly than their male peers. Women who are really great at what they do but haven’t been recognized as up-and-comers yet.
2 Think of three powerful people (of any gender) in your industry who you know personally and who are in a position to hire or assign to women.
3 Compose an email to each of those powerful people individually and recommend a specific woman they should meet, hire, or otherwise work with.
4 Email those women and tell them you’ve recommended them. We haven’t provided a form email by design—a genuine, original email is what counts.
Put your email where your mouth is. Use your network. Endorse women today. Then boost the signal. Women, share your stories about infiltrating male professional networks. Facilitators, submit your own accounts of giving women a leg up. Submit your stories here on GOOD’s Tumblr, on Twitter with the #promotewomen hashtag, or in the comments on our site. We’ll compile your stories and publish them as inspiration.
We have the power to end the gender gap. Take five minutes and send three emails to do something about it.
