- Improvements in working conditions to meet the priorities of women workers
- Promotion of women to higher jobs in the unions
- Campaigning to strengthen demands for equal pay
- Putting womens' issues into the mainstream of union work
- Ensuring women have equal access to training opportunities
- Creating an Internet network for the exchange of information
- Coalitions with other womens' organisations to end media stereotyping.
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Journalists Launch Global Campaign On Gender Rights
The International Federation of Journalists has launched a 7-point global Action Plan to combat discrimination in media organisations and to reinforce union eforts to crack the "glass ceiling" that keeps women out of top jobs.
A detailed survey presented to the IFJ 24th World Congress in Seoul today reveals that despite the fact women comprise at least 38 per cent of the workforce in journalism - less than 1 per cent of media executive posts are held by women.
"This Action plan is long overdue. The challenge to journalists unions and media organisations is for them to make good on promises made years ago to create equality in journalism," said Christopher Warren, IFJ President.
The Action Plan, which was agreed at a special conference prior to the Congress opening calls for: