The politics of media gender equality: Lessons learned and struggles for change twenty years after the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women

Scrutiny of the interplay between gender, politics, and media policies remains crucial to develop necessary knowledge on the contradictions that prevent gender equality from becoming a reality in this sector. Structural and cultural barriers from the local to the supranational level need to be fully appreciated. Similarly, a comparative reading of the political, socio-economic and discursive conditions that constrain women’s specific competence, and hamper opportunities for change in a fast evolving media sector, is needed. This themed issue of ComPol presents contributions addressing different aspects of policy making in/for the media from a gender perspective.