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01, 2006
GMMP presented in Italy: questions for journalists!
Round table still going on! So far, the "authorities" from the university and the province (of course, women) praised the GMMP and offer their participation for the next steps, underlying how women issues are still THE issue at various levels: policies, university (here, at the University of Padova, only the 3% of ordinary professors are female; 6% of associate and 20% of researchers...), society...
Loredana Cornero from the Italian public television RAI brought in the experience of a journalist inside the biggest Italian tv; Sanja Sarnavka from B.a.B.e. (Be Active Be Emancipated) from Croatia told us about their experiences and their initiatives (they have been involved in the GMMP since the first edition in 1995; by the way.. a lot to learn from B.a.B.e... visit www.babe.hr); Monia Azzalini, presenting the Italian report; Stefania Milan (me!) on the three weeks of action and the London roundtable of the 16th of February; Ilaria Gheno from the University of Padova on the building of advocacy networks; and Grazia Cotti Porro who presented the call to the social and political forces in occasion of the European year of equal opportunities (2007!)
So a bunch of women on the table, a lot of energies and passion.. well, first of all I think the GMMP had the great consequence of creating synergies and networks! Second, it is now time to use the data for advocacy and to establish a dialogue with the media and the journalists.. Now, there is the debate.. and the most pressing question seems to us to be HOW TO WE INVOLVE THE MEDIA/JOUNALISTS? how do we communicate with them beyond the "newsworthly" potential of the GMMP (the statistics as news.. so, a short report, and then forget about it..)
I am a journalist myself, and I do not have many ideas.. that's why I am asking this to you all! Also because the cultural differences exists.. Alvaro Duque from the University of Turin, who also participated in the GMMP, observed that probably in Italy the format of the media roundtable adopted in London for the lauch of the report would probably not work! Why? because of the media culture/traditions..
The monitoring here in Italy was done thanks to a huge involvement of three universities: Padova, Turin and Pavia. And training of future journalists seems to be one of the way of getting the gender stereotypes challenged. So, universities and schools of journalisms have a crucial role in shaping future journalists more sensible to gender issues... what do you think?
Posted by Stefania at 1, 2006 04:13