#MeToo Goes Global: Media Framing of Silence Breakers in Four National Settings

Starkey, Jesse C.; Koerber, Amy; Sternadori, Miglena; Pitchford, Bethany

doi:10.1177/0196859919865254

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“…The ways in which accusers’ narratives are framed may also affect the way that the public reacts to the movement and how women frame their own experiences with sexual harassment across nations. For example, Starkey, Koerber, Sternadori, & Pitchford (2019) found that across the United States, Japan, Australia, and India, women who shared their experiences with sexual harassment and assault as part of the #MeToo movement were framed as brave silence breakers, victims of an unjust system, recovered or reluctant heroes, or hysterical sluts. Cross‐national differences in these framings were used to explain differences in the ways that individuals in different nations engaged with #MeToo and the women who were viewed as emblematic of the movement.…”

Section: Discrimination Sexual Harassment and Women's Efforts To Efmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Perspectives on Women and Work

Folberg

2020

Journal of Social Issues

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The vast majority of psychological research on gender and work focuses on WEIRD (i.e., Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) women, which impedes global efforts to promote gender equality and devalues the experiences of the majority of working women across the world. In this article, I first review cross-cultural psychological research on gender and work in three general domains: stereotyping and gender roles, discrimination, harassment, and women's efforts to effect change, and the effects of public and organizational policies on women's work lives. I then highlight how contributions to the present issue of the Journal of Social Issues expand our understanding of working women in non-WEIRD contexts. I conclude with recommendations for future study and a call for more work that recognizes the experiences and perspectives of women in the global majority. Gender inequality in the workplace is a global issue. For example, the availability of paid parental leave may impede women's ability to work, as women are disproportionately responsible for unpaid care work (Addati, Cattaneo, Esquivel, & Valarino, 2018). Globally, many women are employed in low-wage, precarious labor, such as garment work (Borino, 2018), which is rife with worker abuse (Toosi, Voegeli, Antolin, Babbit, & Brown, 2020). In addition, in some parts of the world, women lack workplace protections, may be legally barred from certain professions, and have to ask the permission of their spouse or other family members to engage in paid work (World Bank, 2018b). Promoting gender equality, therefore, requires an understanding of the systemic barriers that women face, which differ due to the intersection of different identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, and national origin (Cole, 2009).

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Section: Discrimination Sexual Harassment and Women's Efforts To Efmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Perspectives on Women and Work

Folberg

2020

Journal of Social Issues

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“…In addition to that, research on the #MeToo movement across cultural contexts is limited and mostly comes from Western countries (Starkey et al 2019). Up to date, there is no research regarding the portrayal of the #MeToo movement in Croatian media done from the perspective of female public relations professionals, hence this study can serve as a starting point for further research.…”

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“…In 2006, the #MeToo Movement was founded by the survivor and activist Tarana Burke. She wanted to raise awareness of women who had been abused (Starkey et al 2019). In 2017, the #MeToo hashtag went viral and woke up the world to the magnitude of the problem of sexual violence.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Female Public Relations Professionals’ Perceptions on the Portrayal of the #Metoo Movement in Croatian Media

Polić

2021

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The #MeToo movement gained prominence in 2017 when the #MeToo hashtag went viral and woke up the world to the magnitude of the problem of sexual violence. It was the actress Alyssa Milano who made the first viral tweet accusing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault. Since research on the #MeToo movement across cultural contexts is limited and mostly comes from Western countries, this research aims to explore the perceptions of six female public relations experts on the portrayal of the #MeToo movement in Croatian media. Thematic analysis has been conducted to analyse data from six interviews. The results show three main themes in the responses from the interviewees: media’s failure to protect the public interest, insufficient visibility of the #MeToo movement in Croatian media and the lack of expertise in the media.

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“…In the past years, though the Women's Marches, pussyhats, the #MeToo movement, as well as increasing attention on body positivity and fat shaming, it seems that feminism, once again, has a strong position in societal debates. Traditional and social media, in US contexts as well as other national contexts, extensively featured content related to these issues (Starkey, Koerber, Sternadori, & Pitchford, 2019), but as some readers remarked even girl magazines such as Teen Vogue have started to include more political and (feminist) activist content in their magazines (Banet-Weiser, 2018). Girl magazines, in part fueled by economic motivations, have started to feature political and feminist content like never before (Banet-Weiser, 2018).…”

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What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Analyzing Postfeminist Themes in Girls’ Magazines

Boschma

Daalmans

2021

MaC

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Girls’ magazines play an important role in the maintenance of gender perceptions and the creation of gender by young girls. Due to a recent resurgence within public discussion and mediated content of feminist, postfeminist, and antifeminist repertoires, centered on what femininity entails, young girls are growing up in an environment in which conflicting messages are communicated about their gender. To assess, which shared norms and values related to gender are articulated in girl culture and to what extent these post/anti/feminist repertoires are prevalent in the conceptualization of girlhood, it is important to analyze magazines as vehicles of this culture. The current study analyzes if and how contemporary postfeminist thought is articulated in popular girl’s magazines. To reach this goal, we conducted a thematic analysis of three popular Dutch teenage girls’ magazines (N = 27, from 2018), Fashionchick, Cosmogirl, and Girlz. The results revealed that the magazines incorporate feminist, antifeminist, and as a result, postfeminist discourse in their content. The themes in which these repertoires are articulated are centered around: the body, sex, male–female relationships, female empowerment, and self-reflexivity. The magazines function as a source of gender socialization for teenage girls, where among other gendered messages a large palette of postfeminist themes are part of the magazines’ articulation of what it means to be a girl in contemporary society.

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#MeToo Goes Global: Media Framing of Silence Breakers in Four National Settings

Cited by 40 publications

References 23 publications

Global Perspectives on Women and Work

Global Perspectives on Women and Work

Female Public Relations Professionals’ Perceptions on the Portrayal of the #Metoo Movement in Croatian Media

What a Girl Wants, What a Girl Needs: Analyzing Postfeminist Themes in Girls’ Magazines

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