Each month, the Beijing +20 campaign is highlighting one of its twelve focus areas. May was dedicated to "women and the media". In the context of this campaign, the European Womens' Lobby (EWL) created a fact sheet presenting the problems, challenges and possible changes in the representation and employment of women in the media.
Women remain strongly under-represented in popular media and are regularly portrayed as passive objects. Additionally, few women hold decision-making positions in the media economy: less than a third of decision-makers are women. The EWL's fact sheet can be found here. More Information here.
The focus area highlighted in the month of June will be "Women and armed conflicts".