POSTED BY Ruby Guyatt IN Featured, Media Spotlight ON Apr 24, 2014 | 0 comments

Report highlights negative media influence

Criticism of Rashida Manjoo’s report ignores the every day, ‘soft’ sexism endemic in the UK. Last week Professor Rashida Manjoo, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women, ended her 16-day mission to the UK. Her task had been to assess the UK’s performance in tackling and preventing abuse of women and girls. Concluding her visit, she released a statement in which she praised the progress made in relation to stopping violence against women, but she expressed concern...

POSTED BY Ruby Guyatt IN Featured, Media Spotlight ON Apr 17, 2014 | 0 comments

Turning the tables on media sexism

New video recasts the gender roles played by men and women in adverts. In the video ‘If Women’s Roles in Ads Were Played by Men’, BuzzFeed recreates ads, including those by GoDaddy, which were recently targeted by the Representation Project’s #NotBuyingIt app, and Doritos. While there’s sometimes nothing wrong with campaigns featuring a little sex and humour, BuzzFeed calls out companies for their repeated objectification of women. The spoofs, which are played alongside the...

POSTED BY Campaigns IN Campaigns, Featured ON Mar 10, 2014 | 0 comments

Stop ignoring dead women

The Home Office has hidden the reality of men’s lethal violence against women and girls for too long. Karen Ingala Smith is petitioning Theresa May to stop ignoring dead women. This is why: On New Year’s Day, 2012, 20 year-old Kirsty Treloar got a text from her boyfriend Myles Williams: “Okay wer all gud now and my new yrs ressy is that I aint going to hit u again and I won’t hit u 4 this yr next yr the yr after that the next yr after that.” The next day he broke into her...