Words Matter! Gender Bias in the Media

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The Florida Commission on the Status of Women hosted a Gender Bias in the Media Roundtable discussion on at the Ocora Room at Pugh Hall, home of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida. Representatives from women’s groups, academia, and media shared with participants their perspectives and experiences in dealing with gender bias or stereotyping in the media, particularly political coverage. This event was cosponsored by the College of Journalism and Communications, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, and the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida.

Award-winning businesswoman and television host Ilene Silverman served as moderator of the event that featured the following panelists:

• Jacki Levine, Gainesville Sun Managing Editor
• Florida Representative Jennifer Carroll
• Judge Simone Marstiller, First District Court of Appeal
• Judge Wendy W. Berger, Seventh Judicial Circuit
• Former Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan, City of Gainesville
• Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell
• Dr. John Wright, Dean and Professor, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
• Cindy Graves, President, Florida Federated Republican Women
• Lisa M. Hammond, Ph.D., the BHER Group
• Ann Herberger, President of the Woods-Herberger Group.

Running time: 1:33:22.

Posted: September 1, 2010
Category: Webcasts