Editing Gender equality (section)

====Statistics on women's representation in the media====
* Women have won only a quarter of [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer prizes]] for foreign reporting and only 17 per cent of awards of the [[Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/women-foreign-correspondents/472596/|title=Why Don't Female Journalists Win More Awards?|last=Asquith|first=Christina|date=2016-03-07|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-21|archive-date=2019-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126024723/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/women-foreign-correspondents/472596/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015 the [[African Development Bank]] began sponsoring a category for [[Women's rights|Women's Right]]s in Africa, designed to promote gender equality through the media, as one of the prizes awarded annually by [[One World Media]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/african-development-bank-promotes-gender-equality-in-the-media-through-womens-rights-in-africa-award-14447|title=African Development Bank promotes gender equality in the media through 'Women's Rights in Africa' Award|date=2019-02-13|website=African Development Bank – Building today, a better Africa tomorrow|language=en|access-date=2019-08-21|archive-date=2019-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821083615/https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/african-development-bank-promotes-gender-equality-in-the-media-through-womens-rights-in-africa-award-14447|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Created in 1997, the [[UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize]] is an annual award that honors a person, organization or institution that has made a notable contribution to the defense and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world. Nine out of 20 winners have been women.<ref name=":22">{{Cite book|title=World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development Global Report 2017/2018|publisher=UNESCO|year=2018|url=http://www.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-bin/ulis.pl?catno=261065&set=005B2B7D1D_3_314&gp=1&lin=1&ll=1|page=202}}</ref>
* The [[Poynter Institute]] since 2014 has been running a Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media, expressly focused on the skills and knowledge needed to achieve success in the digital media environment.
* The [[World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers|World Association of Newspapers and News Publisher]]s (WAN-IFRA), which represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and more than 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries, leads the Women in the News (WIN) campaign together with UNESCO as part of their Gender and Media Freedom Strategy. In their 2016 handbook, WINing Strategies: Creating Stronger Media Organizations by Increasing Gender Diversity, they highlight a range of positive action strategies undertaken by a number of their member organizations from [[Germany]] to [[Jordan]] to [[Colombia]], with the intention of providing blueprints for others to follow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wan-ifra.org/reports/2018/05/28/winning-strategies-creating-stronger-news-media-organizations-by-increasing-gende|title=WINning Strategies – Creating Stronger News Media Organizations by Increasing Gender Diversity (2018 update) – WAN-IFRA|website=www.wan-ifra.org|access-date=2019-08-21|archive-date=2020-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921082454/https://www.wan-ifra.org/reports/2018/05/28/winning-strategies-creating-stronger-news-media-organizations-by-increasing-gende|url-status=dead}}</ref>