The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism [Hardcover]

Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study. This text draws together the most robust data from that original study, presenting it in 29 chapters on individual nations and three additional theoretical chapters. The book is the most expansive effort to date to consider women's standing in the journalism profession across the world. Contents organize nations in relation to their progress within newsrooms, with those most advanced in gender equality representing diversity in terms of region and national development. Contributing authors are, in most cases, the original researchers for their respective nations in the Global Report study.

This handbook offers the first global study of women's employment in news using survey data. It comprises chapters on 29 nations from all regions of the world, authored by local researchers who have a depth of knowledge about their nations' culture, history, gender relations and journalism.

List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction; Carolyn M. Byerly
2. Factors Affecting the Status of Women Journalists: A Structural Analysis; Carolyn M. Byerly
PART I: TAKING THE LEAD
3. Bulgaria: Cinderella Went to Market, with Consequences for Women Journalists; Sorin Nastasia and Diana Iulia Nastasia
4. Estonia: Women Journalists and Women's Emancipation in Estonia; Diana Iulia Nastasia, Barbi Pilvre and Kaja Tampere
5. Finland: Women Journalists, the Unequal Majority; Tarja Savolainen and Henrika Zilliacus-Tikkanen
6. Russia: Women Journalists and the Engendered Transition; Diana Iulia Nastasia and Ekaterina Bondarenko
7. Sweden: l32