21, 2006
UK National Union of Journalists to investigate on pregrancy at workplace
Last year the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) carried out an investigation
into how pregnant women are treated at work. They found that around 30,000
women suffered from pregnancy discrimination. Now we want to know your experiences
at work when you became pregnant, the good stories as well as the bad. Each
question has a space for further details.
The more women that answer this questionnaire, the better - we need to know how
we can help you. Your response will be treated in the strictest confidence and
you do not have to give your name if you don't want to.
We will use the information gained to improve the support we give pregnant NUJ
members at work.
We would also like to use the information to produce a maternity guide for other
members and we may use comments made by you to illustrate that booklet. These
will remain completely anonymous and you can be assured that we will treat the
information you have provided sensitively. However if you object to your response
being used in this way please ensure that you answer 'No' to the final question
of the survey.
To complete the survey, go to http://www.nujtraining.org.uk/poll.phtml
The deadline for completing the survey is Friday, 14th April 2006.
Posted by Stefania at 04:19 | Comments (0)
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 04:13 | Comments (0)
The Who makes the news campaign is progressing.. and the word spreading around. The global report and the Italian results will be lauched in Italy today with a round table at the University of Padova. The event will be coordinated by Claudia Padovani, the GMMP coordinator for Italy, with the participation of the organisations involved in the monitoring of Italian tv, newspapers and radio news programmes (Osservatorio di Pavia and Arcorpari, RAI). Local authorities will also participate.
We will let you later know how it goes!
Posted by Stefania at 10:56 | Comments (1)