Media Analysis
A Gender Analysis of the media landscape in Yemen
In a context riddled with conflict and security risks for journalists, the gender analysis of the media sector in Yemen examines the role that the media can play in promoting the role of women in Yemen’s future, and generates recommendations to bolster safer, equitable, more gender-inclusive and sensitive reporting and media programmes.
This report examines the role that the media can play in promoting the role of women in Yemen’s future. It provides an assessment of the current conditions for women who are working in the media and the barriers to their inclusion. It includes an overview of the representation of women in media content and audience perceptions of this representation.
This report argues that traditional approaches to gender inclusivity and equality – for example legislative reform, support to public media or piecemeal capacity building – will not work in the case of the media in Yemen. Instead, there are opportunities to identify existing pockets of civic commitment within women’s civil society and feminist organisations as agents for ethical change. These can be supported and amplified by women-led and gender-sensitive media.
By demonstrating their commitment to the promotion of women in Yemeni society, media and civil society can begin to change perceptions of gender equality in Yemen.
