The International Journalists’ Network’s website ijnet.org has this piece about a “South Africa-based nonprofit media company called Quote This Woman+ (QW+) [that] has curated a database of women experts in Africa for journalists to reach out to.”
The problem that this non-profit and others like it are trying to solve is that:
“In Africa, only 22% of the people seen, heard or read about in the news are women, according to a 2021 Global Media Monitoring Project report. Women sources are especially less visible in issues like politics and the economy, which often dominate news coverage across the continent.
The lack of women sources doesn’t just fuel inequality; it also creates room for biased reporting. According to the International Labor Organization, 46% of stories published by media enable gender stereotypes.”
Read the full article here.
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