[1] The idea for a media monitoring project was created at the Women Empowering Communication international conference in Bangkok in 1994.
They had several key goals: Coverage The 1995 Report covered 71 countries, and was conducted by volunteers over the span of one day.
The research discussed news subjects, personnel and content through the framework of media accountability to women .
Over the past two decades, the gender gap in people in the news has narrowed most dramatically in Latin America by 13 percent.
Younger presenters on screen are predominantly female, but the scales tip dramatically at 50 years old when men begin to dominate the news-anchoring scene.
9% of stories evoke gender equality or inequality issues, more than double the percentage documented in 2005.
Gender difference in source selection by female and male reporters becomes starker in online news: Women are 33% of sources in stories by online news female reporters, compared to 23% in stories by men.