Championing Change
Advocating for Equality in Scotland’s Media and Cultural Landscapes
About us
Engender is home to Scotland’s first Equal Media and Culture Centre, a hub for research, monitoring and advocacy for equality in the creative and media sectors in Scotland.
Based on the National Advisory Council for Women and Girls’ 2018 recommendation that Scotland should have its own Women in Media Body, Engender received funding for a development project to identify what shape this might take.
Men’s over-representation across the media and creative industries is reflected in widespread stereotyping of women and lack of gender balance in print, on the airwaves and on screen. The portrayal of women across media is damagingly limited, especially for disabled women, minority ethnic women, older women, lesbian, bisexual and trans women.
Our reports
A group of academics, women’s sector organisations and industry stakeholders committed to gender equality in Scotland’s media sector reviewed evidence of global initiatives, undertook original, participatory research, and produced a theory of change for increasing equality with Scotland’s media and cultural sectors.
This is a gendered analysis of a year's worth of news coverage of Scottish football, rugby and golf, revealing a stark disparity between media exposure of men and women's sport.
October 2023
Categories: All publications
May 2023
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A proposal for a media monitoring body in Scotland.
July 2022
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A report outlining literature, theory and practice for changing Scotland’s media and cultural sectors.
July 2022
Categories: All publications
Recent news
Guest post: Reflecting on the National Gathering for Women of Colour in Scotland
Nov 6, 2023
Critically minded? The problem of diversity in film criticism
Sep 6, 2023
Digital abuse against feminist scholars: a case study
Aug 23, 2023
GUEST POST: Do we need diversity quotas in film?
Aug 9, 2023
GUEST POST: Digital safety and women in politics
Jun 20, 2023: Yoke Baeyens explores abuse online in the UK and beyond – with a focus on the experiences of women politicians.
Cost of Living Crisis: How are rising costs affecting women in the arts?
Apr 4, 2023
GUEST POST: What role does theatre have to play in the movement for gender equality?
Jul 20, 2022: Caitlin Skinner is Artistic Director and CEO of Stellar Quines, an intersectional feminist theatre company based in Scotland. Here she writes about what needs to change in the theatre industry.
GUEST POST: “Warning” versus “claiming”: the subtle misogyny in media discourse
May 25, 2022
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