Regulation of Gender - Discriminatory Advertising in the Nordic Countries
Regulation of Gender - Discriminatory Advertising in the Nordic Countries

Author: Kosunen, Niina

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2017-06-14

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 9289350075

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Due to the media’s normative power to reflect daily life and to shape our understanding of gender, media plays a vital role in constructing – or deconstructing – gender equality. In modern societies, the advertising industry plays a major role in the media landscape. In the Nordic countries gender discriminatory advertising has been on the public agenda since the 1970s and 1980s, the time when gender equality legislation was adopted. However, the Nordic countries have chosen different ways of combating and regulating gender discriminatory advertising. This report presents results of a survey on how gender-discriminatory advertising is regulated in the Nordic countries. The survey was conducted as part of a project on gender equality in the media carried out during the Finnish presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2016

Sexist Advertisement in the Nordic Countries
Sexist Advertisement in the Nordic Countries

Author: Swedish women's lobby

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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In the report, the Swedish Women's Lobby has analysed the content of Nordic regulations to counteract sexist advertising and how they are implemented. To conclude, we propose recommendations for improved procedures.

Women and men in the news
Women and men in the news

Author: Mannila, Saga

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 9289349735

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The media carry significant notions of social and cultural norms and values and have a powerful role in constructing and reinforcing gendered images. The news in particular has an important role in how notions of power are distributed in the society. This report presents study findings on how women and men are represented in the news in the Nordic countries, and to what extent women and men occupy the decision-making positions in the media. The survey is based on the recent findings from three cross-national research projects. These findings are supported by national studies. The results indicate that in all the Nordic countries women are underrepresented in the news media both as news subjects and as sources of information. Men also dominate in higher-level decision-making positions. The report includes examples of measures used to improve the gender balance in Nordic news.

The Nordic road towards Beijing+25
The Nordic road towards Beijing+25

Author: Nordic Council of Ministers

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2020-02-26

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9289365331

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In 2020, the global community marks the twenty-fifth anniver-sary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action – the most visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere. While the United Nations is undertaking and concluding a global review of the Beijing Platform for Action, this very report summarizes the five Nordic countries’ Beijing+25 review reports. It takes stock of progress made thus far – the Nordic road towards Beijing+25. Importantly, the report points towards areas of opportunities for the Nordics – where the prospects for gender equality really lie: in the agency of young people, in intersectional approaches and mind-sets and in the engagement of men and boys in the making of gender equality.

Communication Technology and Gender Violence
Communication Technology and Gender Violence

Author: Deepanjali Mishra

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-11-25

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 3031452372

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This book presents a compilation of case studies from practitioners, educators, and researchers working in the area of digital violence, along with methodologies to prevent it using cyber security. The book contains three basic sections namely: the concept of digital violence in policy and practice; the impact of digital violence; and the implication of cyber security to curb such violence. The intention of this book is to equip researchers, practitioners, faculties, and students with critical, practical, and ethical resources to use cyber security and related technologies to help curb digital violence and to support victims. It brings about the needs of technological based education in order to combat gendered crimes like cyberbullying, body-shaming, and trolling that are a regular phenomenon on social media platforms. Topics include societal implications of cyber feminism; technology aided communication in education; cyber security and human rights; governance of cyber law through international laws; and understanding digital violence.

Perspectives of Equality
Perspectives of Equality

Author: Laura Kalliomaa-Puha

Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9789289304764

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Engelsk tekst. 332 s., hf., 2000. (Nord 2000 ; 5)

Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change
Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change

Author: Anne Hellum

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781032001289

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The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index -but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model's systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape.