Looking back and ahead: the media and the struggle for gender equality after the Nairobi UN women's conference - Rosemary Okello-Orlale

This briefing examines the role the media has played in furthering gender equality, peace and development as was spelt out by the Nairobi International Women's Conference in 1985. The conference, in many ways, presented opportunities for new forms of engaging the media with the struggle against poverty and women's rights. This paper surveys the performance of the media and how the African media in particular have engaged with agendas set at the Nairobi Conference with regards to transforming attitudes, creating more space for women and, most importantly, setting a proactive agenda for working towards gender equality. How have women's voices and images as forms of expression found presence in the media since 1985?
From: Agenda 69 (2006), pp. 48-56