Proposed gender quotas in television news in Andalucia – ABC.es

The Audiovisual Community Council requests that men and women appear equally in the information

Towards gender parity also in television news. That is the challenge that has raised the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia, whose ‘Report on the gender distribution of speaking time “, presented yesterday in Seville, calls to television broadcasting in this community take “corrective measures” to prevent the imbalance between men and women featuring news.

The Audivisual Council-a body of parliamentary extraction an annual budget of 4.6 million euros – states that the study “demonstrate again a huge gap between the sexes when it comes to explain or analyze reality in public television news.” Three out of four interventions are camera men, which “promotes the social influence of women is significantly lower, especially in some areas.”

The council has referred the report public television that have analyzed for a tool that allows the self on the balance between men and women in the news and take corrective measures. And reminds them of their duty to “reflect the social diversity and contribute to gender equality.”

The report, which analyzes the news of RTVA Andalusian off TVE and ten municipal channels, reels gender imbalances in the emissions studied. Thus, stresses that only two percent of all athletes interviewed in the news of the Andalusian public television in 2013 were women, also occurs in the business, union, judicial or religious.

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Among those recommendations is the increase the time spent on sports and women’s competitions . It is also proposed “the adoption of codes of conduct and agreements of co-regulation and self-regulation to protect the right to equality and eradicate stereotypes.”

It has also issued recommendations aimed at media professionals to reduce the “enormous” gender gap that characterizes the information in general. You want to end, for example, with the “accused tendency of the media to come to men to analyze and judge , as experts, today.”

71% of respondents in the news economy were men , they also accounted for 74.4% in science or 75.3% of the chronic labor. “This inertia is favored by the shortage of women in decision-making,” the report said.