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The Global Media Monitoring Project
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) maps the representation of women and men in news media worldwide. GMMP research has been carried out in five-year cycles since 1995 and relies on the voluntary efforts of hundreds of individuals and organisations, including grassroots communication groups, media professionals and university researchers.
The 1995, 2000 and 2005 studies revealed that women are grossly under-represented in news coverage in contrast to men. The outcome of under-representation is an imbalanced picture of the world, one in which women are largely absent. The studies equally showed a paucity of women’s voices in news media content in contrast to men’s perspectives, resulting in news that presents a male-centred view of the world. On 10 November 2009, 1,281 newspapers, television and radio stations were monitored in 108 countries for the fourth GMMP. The research covered 16,734 news items, 20,769 news personnel (announcers, prese...
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