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Article: Q&A-ZIMBABWE: MEDIA CONTINUE TO IGNORE FEMALE CANDIDATES
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- June 25, 2008
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Ignatius Banda
Inter Press Service English News Wire
06-25-2008
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun. 24, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- News agencies
have become a prime focus of activists campaigning to put more
women into Africa's parliaments.
All too often, female candidates are sidelined in election
coverage or reported on in a way that entrenches stereotypes of
women rather than analyzing the strength of their political and
economic policies.
In a bid to address this situation, the Zimbabwean chapter of
the Media Institute of Southern Africa, a press watchdog, evaluated
coverage of women candidates in the 2005 House of Assembly
elections in Zimbabwe.
Its findings were set out in a subsequent report, "So Many
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