Report on Self-Regulation by the Broadcasting and Advertising Industries for the Elimination of Sex-Role Stereotyping in the Broadcast Media [ Sex-Role Stereotyping in the Broadcast Media: a Report on Industry Self-Regulation ]

Eliminating sex-role stereotyping: editorial guidelines for Employment and Immigration Canada communications, 1983 [ Eliminating Sex-Role Stereotyping ]

gender stereotyping [ sex-role stereotyping ]

62. Calls on the Member States, and especially media regulators, to consider the place accorded – in both quantitative and qualitative terms – to women and to promote a balanced, non-stereotyped image of women, in a way that is respectful of women’s dignity, their diverse roles and their identity, and to ensure that commercial audiovisual media do not contain any sex discrimination or humiliating depictions of women, with particular reference to internet-based media which is often targeted on women and girls; stresses that Members States should also improve women’s access to job opportunities in the media and, in particular, to decision ...[+++]-making positions; calls on the Commission to sensitise the Member States to the need for public and legal media to act as a role model in the presentation of diversity; calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit themselves more firmly to ending the sexist stereotypes conveyed by the media, and draws attention to important measures included in Parliament’s report on the elimination of gender stereotypes, which was adopted in 2013;

62. Calls on the Member States, and especially media regulators, to consider the place accorded – in both quantitative and qualitative terms – to women and to promote a balanced, non-stereotyped image of women, in a way that is respectful of women’s dignity, their diverse roles and their identity, and to ensure that commercial audiovisual media do not contain any sex discrimination or humiliating depictions of women, with particular reference to internet-based media which is often targeted on women and girls; stresses that Members States should also improve women’s access to job opportunities in the media and, in particular, to decision ...[+++]-making positions; calls on the Commission to sensitise the Member States to the need for public and legal media to act as a role model in the presentation of diversity; calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit themselves more firmly to ending the sexist stereotypes conveyed by the media, and draws attention to important measures included in Parliament’s report on the elimination of gender stereotypes, which was adopted in 2013;

62. Calls on the Member States, and especially media regulators, to consider the place accorded – in both quantitative and qualitative terms – to women and to promote a balanced, non-stereotyped image of women, in a way that is respectful of women’s dignity, their diverse roles and their identity, and to ensure that commercial audiovisual media do not contain any sex discrimination or humiliating depictions of women, with particular reference to internet-based media which is often targeted on women and girls; stresses that Members States should also improve women’s access to job opportunities in the media and, in particular, to decision ...[+++]-making positions; calls on the Commission to sensitise the Member States to the need for public and legal media to act as a role model in the presentation of diversity; calls on the Commission and the Member States to commit themselves more firmly to ending the sexist stereotypes conveyed by the media, and draws attention to important measures included in Parliament’s report on the elimination of gender stereotypes, which was adopted in 2013;

6. Stresses that in order to effectively combat violence against women, a change of attitude towards women and girls in society is necessary, given that women are all too often represented in subordinate roles and violence against them is all too often tolerated or undermined; stresses that gender stereotypes are among the main causes of violations of women’s rights and inequalities between men and women; notes that particular attention must be paid to constitutional, legislative and regulatory provisions which discriminate against women on the basis of their sex, for example ...[+++] with regard to access to justice, property, credit, health care or education; calls on the EEAS and the Commission to emphasise the importance of involvement by men in information and awareness-raising campaigns on women’s rights;